sick and beautiful 1 (velvet) (2018) Photography by A-Design-A

It all started by chance. One summer morning, many years ago, I thought of thickening an entire wall of the room I had at my parents' house by placing books and objects on shelves lengthwise and lengthwise. I then turned to a local blacksmith. But every time I went to his shop he told me: "come back in three days... come back next week... I didn't have time..." And so I stopped going. I didn't go to any other blacksmith in the town. I thought that I would make the bookcase, in my own way and with my own hands, even though I didn't know how to do it given my lack of technical and artisan knowledge. In anger he begins to realize it in my mind, visualizing every single part of its structure. I purchased an electrode welder, a grinder and a drill. Tools that I had never used and that I had to learn to use. What I created was a "ramshackle" structure that didn't satisfy me at all. Practically a disaster! After the first failed attempt I started working again to create another one. But I made part of it and then destroyed it to start the work all over again after some time. If on the one hand my work wasn't progressing at least I practiced and acquired the technique.
I believe that the greatest failure is when we give up on our dreams, when we give up on becoming who we are. You can accumulate many material goods, have substantial bank accounts, but if everything you have achieved has been done against your feelings, if you have chosen not to take risks, if you have preferred certainty to uncertainty, if you have bent down and done you have failed to be influenced by the sensible advice of others. Regrets kill and unhappiness at work is a slow death.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists