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You’ve mentioned that art is a continuous journey with only “starting points.” Can you elaborate on this
philosophy and how it shapes your creative process?
With this statement I mean that in every phase of the artistic path, as well as in life, the artist can always re-invent
himself, re-starting again, giving importance to the creative process itself and living it simply to fully express himself
without giving so much limits.
Each artwork can be a source of inspiration to make another one, completely different than the previous one. If an
artwork may be not appreciated or understood, it doesn't matter: the important thing is to move forward and be
immersive and aware of what you’re doing.
Combining traditional and digital techniques, how do you decide when to use one medium over the other,
and what role does each play in your finished pieces?
I often use digital techniques to make more “alternative” or fewer represented subjects than my main artistic
research, such as abstract forms or insect nightmares.
I draw in a digital way also to represent pop and comic subjects.
I like so much digital art because it’s more easily enjoyable for the public than physical ones. Moreover, the fact that
fascinates me is that this kind of art is made and they belong to the virtual world, literally another dimension.
On the other hand is a fact that just with traditional art the artist can have a real art experience through materials and
manipulating them. I try always to find a balance between them, depending also on my moods.
Your art is inspired by fantastic animals and outsider art. What elements of outsider art speak to you, and
how do they influence the fantastical aspects of your work?
Surely there are so many elements for my inspiration took by the Outsider Art: subjects like animals as a donkey or the
rooster, taken from Antonio Ligabue’s artworks and also by the Hlebine Croatian artists; by the warm tones used by
them and also specific certain stylized made of these subjects; by the visionary sculptures of the Sicilian artist Mariano
Pietrini, that evoke in myself a pure and mysterious world and at the same time wild, prehistorical and unknown world.

78 Feminine power - Graphite on paper, 21x29.7cm, 2024