The memory-fuelled gaze is what such a complex activity as looking implies. In my work I have always had an ambivalent attitude, going forward with my gaze turned back. I explore the past as something alive and fundamental, capable of giving meaning to the present. History is not circular, it never repeats exactly, the form that best defines it - instead of the circle - is the spiral.
The dynamic is identical to that of the construction of my individual works: I try to create stumbling blocks, difficulties, small obstacles on the way that the viewer's eye has to overcome. If he doesn't want to do it, nothing happens. Or almost.
Gino De Dominicis, an Italian artist of the second half of the 20th century - accustomed to paradoxes - wrote: "In the beginning was the word. In the beginning was the image".
What I wrote in response to the second question.
I like to recall the phrase of Yunmen, a Chinese Buddhist monk: "He who does not seek is asleep, he who seeks is a beggar".
