Gorgona Pins and Buttons
Description: This t-shirt is dedicated to Gorgona, the last prison island in Italy. Here, over the past 25 years, many detainees have shared their lives with a group of cows, pigs and other so called breeding animals. As Marco Verdone, homeopath veterinary in the island says: "Until a few years ago Gorgona was the island from which prisoners came out as free individuals, while animals, free individuals, came out as food." This oxymoron laid the foundations of an extraordinary project that led to the recognition, in 2014, of the first animals with the status of "refugee and cooperator for detainees treatment". In this way Gorgona became “l’isola che c’è” (Everland), a land of peace and freedom for all. Gorgona also became the stage of a s...
