Who am I?
I am a total stranger
Basically, I am a draftsman, that's for sure
Since I can remember, to run away from my worries
I always carried with me a sketchbook and a pencil
and kept drawing
Drawing is a window to free up your anxieties
And by drawing, one learns to think
Because clearly, in order to draw something
you have to understand it, and to understand it
you must think about it
At the time when I had this craziness of drawing, drawing, and drawing
the economy of the country was good
and a bunch of advertisement agencies started up
which gave a shot to all those people
with artistic goals and aspirations like me
to work and draw for them
Advertisement was also useful
for me to go deep in the human soul
meaning the deepest part of people's psychology
That was the time of psychoanalysis
the time of Freud, Adler
It was a time when things that had been hidden under a rug
came to light
I was lucky to have a very own style
I had a unique way of drawing
and that made it easier for people to identify my work
Though at the same time
the purist in the advertisement industry
considered this as a flaw
But I thought it to be a great and advantageous virtue
Actually, I have always been a very, very, very emotional being
and the problems within my private life
have troubled me deeply
I had a depression for ten years
which means I pretty much stayed out of the circuit
It was while going through this intense time of my life
that I decided to dedicate my time to paint
I felt that painting gave me much more satisfaction
than advertisement
Probably, since I'm still a little naive
I thought that advertisement was a trap
unsuitable for me or anybody else
For me, painting is a therapy of tranquility
and release of my consciousness
In other words
painting has been a psychological salvation
Emotions are very difficult to depict
because they are limitless
They have no walls, no ceiling
Emotions are like clouds
Once you put them in a box they are impossible
Emotions have this negative side
but it's what truly settles the basis for art
Understanding yourself
is one of the most complex things
I have ever come across in life
When I paint and draw is when I really identify myself
but these are only brief moments
tiny fractions of existence
that once they happen
they practically melt in space