My work “Open air” will be part of the “SAQA Global Exhibition Abstraction: Textural Elements”, opening in a few days at Max Berk Textile Collection, Palatinate Museum, Heidelberg, Germany, on September 15, 2024.
I described its story in an earlier blog post, at this link.

“Open air” is one of my quilts more connected with drawing, since it is mainly based on the use of line.

What is drawing?

Joe Cunningham said to me (during a mentoring session with him, which I had the pleasure to attend): “Drawing is a direct connection to the mind”.

My first drawings, at primary school, included roses from the home garden of my class mate Sara. Last month I was in Oslo, in Norway, and I visited Vigeland park. The smell of roses I found there made me wish to draw roses again, as in the innocence of childhood.

I once displayed a drawing gallery “en plein air”, thanks to the arrangement of my friends Serena and Andrea, who made a concert in a natural reserve, in the Cona island, near river Isonzo. During that evening, they played, among their own music, also the song by their friend Ares Movio, which talks about childhood innocence too. You can hear it in the following video.

I had the honor to illustrate Andrea and Serena’s CD “Laila”: it was a wonderful joint creativity experience, one of my best memories related to drawing.

I recently started drawing again.
Rivers, obviously.