Monthly Archives: March 2020
#1
This is a brief essay but it’s in Italian. I will translate it as soon as I’ll feel like translating. Otium cum dignitate Questa quarantena è un’ottima occasione di riflessione, introspezione, un’inedita possibilità di dedicarci ad attività spiritualmente ed intellettualmente nutrienti, ad abbandonare la compulsiva produttività capitalista che la società della stanchezza ci ha abituati …
everyday
I am thinking a lot about time.How do we spend our time, how much time are we losing now, how much time do I have left? I have always thought about death and fragility of our condition as human beings, but this sudden change in our lives makes it all feel more real.I am spending …
#2
Since when I’m in quarantine, I have the most absurd dreams. Two-headed goats, Brangelina, a herd of wild corgis raised by a tiny wolf. But, even more unexpected, some sudden visions, coming without asking for them: images from places far away in time and memory, sometimes clear and articulated, but it’s hard to say if …
Drawing
When I don’t draw for a week or two I immediately lose all my abilities, it takes at least two days of sketches to get back to my usual shapes and lines, as if both my right hand and my brain completely forgot how to imagine forms and how to transfer them to paper.
23.05.1999 – 23.05.2020
I am working on a film combining an old home movie (the last time my grandfather celebrated my grandmother’s birthday, when I was six years old) and a new one: a performance executed by my mother. I asked her to plant some seeds in the garden of her family, where flowers used to be.I decided …