I was born in Italy in the past century and I’ve been drawing and painting since early childhood. Being a restless traveller and a linguist, after graduation I moved to Mougins, a hilltop village of the French Riviera where Picasso spent the last few years of his life. At the beginning of the new millennium, I visited Spain and travelled throughout the country. I was deeply impressed by the desert meseta around Madrid, the first landscape with limitless horizons I had ever seen in my life, where villages and cities may be hundreds of kilometers apart…