Breakwater architecture samples, pencil and watercolour on paper, 2022
The works I present are part of a series of recent graphic reflections on the terracqueous landscape of the Mediterranean. In particular, reference is made to that geographical area of myth, visions and legends: the Mar Ionio, Mar Tirreno and Stretto coasts between Sicily and Calabria. An illustrated narrative that lies between mirage and vision, caprice and the oniric, invention in architecture and the construction of devices of the gaze for the narration of the terracquean landscape. Re-using codes, expressiveness and styles present in the vertical architecture of coastal watchtowers of the past; In the translation into a graphic sign of the equidistant fluidity of the seascape, which is almost always unstable, changeable, never static; In the taxonomic cataloguing of geometries for the construction, observation, contemplation of the horizon of the sea; In the uncertain and contradictory paradox that exists between natural and artificial phenomena, reality and fantasy, design and invention.
All the drawings I have made are part of a journey of RESISTANCE that I operate from a standstill in my everyday life. Very small works, kept inside my carnet de voyage.
Architecture of the sea samples, pencil and watercolour on paper, 2022
Cliff hanging, pencil and watercolour on paper, 2022
Built Island, pencil and watercolour on paper, 2021