Daniel
Sartini

My life changed when I started going to elementary school.This is where my tortuous path to self-discovery began and it did not take a long time. About 3 years passed since I was adopted, before I found myself and discovered a natural pleasure in the art of drawing.School, I would say, has never been the right environment to be in: I was always too agitated, energetic and aggressive thus I was often pushed away from the class due to my temperament maybe because I still did not understand the new surroundings I was living in. However, in the school, there was a teacher among others who struck me a lot. Massimo is the teacher’s name and when I was removed from the class, teacher Massimo would pick me up and take me to another empty classroom to spend my time with him.In that classroom, everything came to life from the moment my teacher started drawing and painting on large billboards. To observe a man capable of being able to portray reality in a realistic way, for me was something supernatural and all this led me to an almost unbelievable stillness and peace.  In the eyes of those who considered me only a monster, a violent, a child with serious problems, this new state of mind seemed like a miracle. From then on, a new thing became part of my life, Art. From that time on, I started drawing every morning, non-stop. I tried to identify with my teacher Massimo. and I remember that in every lesson I always portrayed him, on any piece of paper I found the important thing for me was to portray my teacher. It was as if I wanted to thank him for introducing me to the world of Art.My making art did not stop only in school hours but began to bring this new world to any place I went, especially at home, where I still dedicated body and soul to expressing my personality and conflict with myself in a thousand different ways.