Most artists produce work at home or in their studios and a sense of measure, balance and creative security is often found in one’s own daily environment. Civitella offers a rare opportunity to feel at home in what can be considered an ideal setting of peace, quiet...
To see a living thing,a badly damagedthing, and to fail to understandhow life still catcheshold of it and clings without falling through –like water fallingthrough a bowl more fissure than bowl.Just as a bowlmust be waterproof, a body must belifeproof, we assume,as if...
We paint the bedroom walls Quixotic Plum.We paint the bedroom ceiling Foggy Day. You paint your nails and eyelids Powder Blue.We drive to photograph the flying buttresses of the flamboyant oil refineryand stay through dusk to catch the glimmering reflections of its...
War, violence, killing, poverty, absence of freedom and ugliness was my reality in Belgrade. Civitella was something totally different. That was magic place full of light where everything had a special aura, a place where you can touch and smell beauty. There I was...
