The valley Val Camonica was formed by the potent alpine glaciers of the last ice-age. When the glaciers melted, the underlying rocks, which had been smoothed by the massive ice sheds appeared under them. When the first humans entered the valley in the neolithic period, they discovered the rock formations and impressed by what was around them, started to carve their stories inside of them. Ages after ages the men and women, who lived in the valley or crossed through it, added to the existing drawings and transformed Val Camonica into a canvas covered by an almost infinite number of signs, drawings and stories. Today, this map in size of a valley, covered with mysterious, breathtaking drawings, appears all over the valley under the turf, inside the woods, between the meadows.

The aim of the project is the provision of a way finding system, which helps visitors to orientate themselves inside the valley, find the single rock formations and helps in discovering their stories through all the senses: visual, tactile, auditory. No new artificial structures are added to the landscape, simple graphical elements are added to features instead, which are already present on the site. They new signs are added in a way to complement each other at different scales. The same elements are used in paper space as well as in the digital space.

Coloured bands applied to tree trunks direct our attention from a distance, when approaching a rock formation, a galaxy of wooden disks, produced out of trees from nearby, accompany the rock. They form a space, where someone can pause and explore the rock in front of them. Both the vertical signs as well as the horizontal signs of the pavement are reversible and do not introduce new materials to the site. Following this philosophy, the wooden disks in front of the rocks do not introduce a new form into the site, but they rather take the form of what is around them. Like the trees of the forest around the resulting texture only changes in density.

These simple physical elements and elementary graphical signs, function as reference points in physical space and connect to the paper space as well as digital space. In the latter two the rocks take preeminence and almost everything else recedes into the homogeneity of a contrasting colour. The rocks can be experiences in different scales. In some of the scales the drawings become visible and one step after the other come to the foreground. The information about the drawings is presented in different forms: as a map as well as an index. You can discover the next rock drawings nearby as well as visit a specific drawing in the valley.