Transhumance, is a work of Enrico Franchi’s collection

Enrico Franchi’s Transhumance is a herd of small – and not so small – bronze cows cast one by one by the artist.
Transhumance is a word composed of the Latin prefix trans-, which indicates crossing, change, displacement from one place – or from one state – to another, grafted onto the noun humus (= land). Respectful of the etymology, the word transhumance refers to the migration that the herds face seasonally as they descend from the hilly or mountain pastures to those in the plains – and vice versa.
I dwell on the trans- prefix, the same that makes up the word transformation, change of form, which is then metamorphosis.