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. This Summer 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.

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.

Drawing is part of my identity.

At high school, I enrolled to specialisation on maths and drawing, both with pleasure. When the moment came to select university faculty, I had in mind options of architecture and engineering. I chose engineering. I am a full-time engineer, since more than 20 years: I am a microscopist, and I have a professional relationship with images, including technical drawings.

I decided to create a dedicated social profile for my activity related to drawing: @the_cult_of_ink.

I will collect there my drawing works, which have not been shown much in the past but, in reality, they are many. You will find the following themes: botany, architecture, cityscapes, dreamscapes, the magical presence of animals, technical drawing, texture, abstraction and maps.

I invite you to join me in this new journey, and to dream.