Noelle, Invelle, Inmelle, Anvel, Invel
Where are you? A Noelle.
A seemingly simple answer that, in the Marche, can mean much more than it appears. Noelle, Invelle, Inmelle, Anvel, Invel, N’velle. Every area has its own version to describe the same impossible place: nowhere. A geographic and mental non-place crossing dialects, hills and generations.
In the Marche, these expressions do not simply indicate a missing location. They describe a state of being. A moment of suspension, inactivity, a temporary escape from the world. A space between presence and absence, between leaving and staying.
It is no coincidence that this graphic references Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye: a character wandering through the world without ever truly finding his place. In MarcheLove’s reinterpretation, Holden ends up exactly Gone Noelle, heading towards one of the many non-places hidden inside the Marchigiano language.
Because Noelle is not simply “nowhere”. It is a mental, poetic and identity-based elsewhere where every person from the Marche, sooner or later, has found themselves.
This postcard comes from WhatYouSay by MarcheLove, a research project exploring language and local identity: not the classic postcard landscape, but a landscape of words, made of absences, imagination and hidden meanings.
Product details
Illustrated postcard printed on 350 gr matte coated paper.
Size: 16.5 × 12.5 cm.
High-quality print, perfect to send, collect or use as a small decorative artwork.
