The fire is discovered through contact is a site-specific participatory performance developed for Roma Diffusa in the square of Campo de’ Fiori. The performance encourages participants to confront the spirits that inhabit the square; spirits now become the main actors of the performance: the rose and light star vendors, the martyrs of words, and the heretics with a faceless gaze.

"Where is love?" one asked, offering a rose.

"The revolutionaries will be lovers, not politicians," whispered a spirit.

Another taught us how to activate the crystalline trail of a comet’s star.

A statue confided in us that love is in everything: it manifests as force and life in living things, it is what living things draw strength and life from, and it is the very vigor of living things; love warms what is cold, illuminates what is dark, awakens what is sluggish, and brings to life what is dead; it is love that teaches what belongs to others, what is ours, who we are, and who others are; necessity obeys only love.