NY, New York

It starts with an arrival.

The first citizen to welcome me is the Metro. The dialogue with the underground begins.

The extraordinary thing is that it is a real dialogue.

Quadro pubblicitario con testo e immagini astratte colorate di sfondo. Il testo include titoli e una poesia, in inglese, riguardanti la luna, il viaggio, e il motivo di essere qui."

why am I here you ask me. I’m here to rewrite a piece of my life, to be reborn, to get answers.

the answers are within us and come out into the sunlight like a flooded river in moments of grace in wich everything seeems to conspire for this to happen. simply we have left behind the usual actions and the usual toughts

I also find him at the Whitney..

It was an admirable masterpiece as it brought together in a perfect synthesis technique, vision and that slight wich makes a scene truer than reality itself absurdity, but in addition it had the precious quality of reaching me in the wake of the magic pencil and its line of matches.”‍ ‍page 76 The Subway - George Tucker - 1950

In an adjointing room I found the complementary painting, wich described the impotence of the creative intelligentsia of the city, the one that should have saved those inside the previous painting…” page 76 Howard Kanowitz, New Yorkers I

Un quadro di George Tucker, the Subway, che rappresenta persone in attesa in una stazione metropolitana, raffigurata in uno stile realistico e dettagliato.
Dipinto di Howard Kanowitz, New Yorkers 1, che rappresenta uomini in discussione, con alcuni che chiacchierano e altri in ascolto, sullo sfondo un edificio urbano.

Mount Angel, Colorado

A village among tulip field against the backdrop of a snowy peak. Strange but true. Pieces of the world merge into a new reality.

From here, the journey changes. My alter ego continues it, as if after my stay in New York, a part of me had detached itself and taken a different path. Instead of "returning home," I choose to have a new home waiting for me. The adventure of an alternative or parallel version of myself begins. From an imaginative choice a whole book is born, a ‘living’ book.

The Mines

the legacy of my friend Porter

Stopping at the Mount Angel oasis would be too easy. So I use the energy of this happy place to cross the threshold of an abandoned mine, bequeathed to my pen pal Porter. Inside we will find everything.

Especially what we never expected.

Love

Energy

Freedom

The search for these three fundamentals is the foundation of the book, and in the mine, in a more or less raw form and adapted to our different natures, these three primary needs will be nourished.