No word as ‘silence’ occurs most frequently in tides of paintings by Mimmo Paladino. The silent memories that his paintings opens beyond the vision are less idiomatic than we imagine. On the traces of the origins, Paladino’s painting, would remember the ghosts that come back into the visible. The narrative fable, the phantasmagoria and the linguistics aspects of Paladino’s works, are captured by the EN DO RE cycle of artworks examined in this paper.