#4.3.1

Swan, Amsterdam 2005


Swan Self-Portrait, Amsterdam 2005

#4.3

WonderlandCities#3, Rotterdam 2005

QUESTION: Which is the difference between looking to and looking at?
(qual è la differenza tra vedere e guardare?)

#4.2

"My favourite thing is to go where I' ve never been...and nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize..."

#4

"There are and have been and will be an infinite number of things on earth. Individuals all different, all wanting different things, all knowing different things, all loving different things, all looking different. Everything that has been on earth has been different from any other thing. That is what I love: the differenteness, the uniqueness of all things and the importance of life...I see something that seems wonderful; I see the divineness in ordinary things." D.A.

#3

.........Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her, and to wonder what would happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything........
"Come! There is not use in crying!"said Alice to herself rather sharply, "I advice you to leave off this minute!" (she generally gave herself very good advice, and sometimes scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes, and once she remembered boxing her own ears for having been unkind to herself in a game of croquet she was playing with herself , for this curiose child was very fond of pretending to be two people,)"but it's not use now",thought poor Alice,"to pretend to be two people! Why , there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!"


Shadowy SelfPortrait with tree, Bologna 2006
Double SelfPortrait, Bologna, 2006

Illustration and writing from: Lewis Carrol "Alice Underground"

#2.3

Wonderland Tree, Amsterdam, 2005

#2.2

Leaf, Bologna, 2004

Leaves out of the window, Bologna, 2004

#2.1

Endless Tree, Bologna, 2004

#2

"Trees have lasting thoughts, quiet, as they have a life longer than our.
They are wiser than us till we don't listen them. But when we would learn to listen trees, thus just the brevity, the quickness and the childish precipitation of our thoughts takes an incomparable joy.
Who learned listening trees doesn't desire anymore to be a tree. She or he doesn't desire anything else than being what he or she is.

That is the fatherland.
That is happiness.
...

Througt their leafy branch the world rustles, their roots dip in the Infinite, although they don't loose their selves into it. At the contrary they pursue with all their vital strengthen a sole aim: to realize the innate law they bring, to bear their shape to perfection, to represent and perform their selves. Nothing is more sacred and exemplary than a beautiful and strong tree...."

(H.Hesse)

[The Tree, Villa Ghigi, Bologna]

#1.1

Untitled, FOAM, Amsterdam 2005
Untitled, Openbare Bibliotheek Prinsengracht, Amsterdam 2005

#1

"Life continually gets better and worse and better...it demands your share....
I don't want any tiny blunder to betray me....This may sound nutty, but I have discovered that life really is a melodrama.....
...as if the gods put us down with a
certain arbitraty glee
in the wrong place
and what we seek is who we really ought to be.........." D.A.



Untitled, St. Petersburg, Russia 2001

#0

".....I just want to stay with my eye to the keyhole forever, like with that other camera which is just a damn seductive liar where you see what you're going to get but you don't get what you saw..."

WELCOME TO EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING

Self Portrait, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam 2005