drawing

New year explorations

drawing, Exhibits, techniques

The year started with a lot of exploration, and I want to share some interesting paths.

I’ve started a new year with a new focus on drawing. I’ve always been drawing but I’m now putting in order past work and dedicating more time to new work. The more I review past drawing, the more I wish to do new ones.

I’m reading a book by the graphic designer and philosopher Riccardo Falcinelli, Visus, and I learn that: my recent growing work is much line based and contour based, which is a technique consolidated in modern times by cartoon and comics; we use to be drawing what we want to be in contact with, and I like to be in front of nature, landscape and abstraction.

I’ve recently visited the gallery of contemporary art Naturae and I discovered the artist Macoto Murayama, who invented the term “botech”: botanical drawing expressed with the extreme of capabilities of nowadays technology, as a way to reveal microscopical beauties but also the way we think. Being myself sensitive to microscopy, technology and art, his work looks to me as a game changer.

I’ve read the book Wild textiles by Alice Fox, and her capability to use found objects and natural supplies changed my way of looking at my everyday material sources and even the apple peel and biscuit wrap are not the same under my eyes now.

I found a lot of inspiration… and we’re just at the beginning of the year!

The cult of ink

drawing

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.