Civitella is a place the like of which I wish were available to all artists; one in which I was able to grapple with the most difficult parts of my work in progress and to exist in a state of near-continual learning through immersion to the work of others in manifold...
The idea of going to Civitella was to keep searching for the pleasure of being lost and collecting tools and parts for my broken compass that points nowhere. After 40 days the collection became bigger and the compass wider, since, this compass points from time to time...