The Sciliar, or Schlern, the mountain that symbolises South Tyrol and represents a sense of belonging (Heimat, or homeland), is celebrated and transformed into a fetish that emigrants take with them. The work is set in a specific historical context: the question of the South Tyrolean ethnic “options” of 1939, as a result of which the populace had to choose between remaining in their homeland and renouncing their language and culture, or emigrating to the German Länder. The work refers to the well-known interventions in the landscape by Christo and Jeanne-Claude: similarly, the act of wrapping here stigmatises the need to preserve the goods and memories that we hold dear.