This painting was
born as an attempt to imagine the consequences on humanity and the environment
of a possible World War 3 in the 21st century. I chose to represent a place
commonly considered beautiful, desirable, to be protected, and to alter it by
playing with colors and shapes until arriving at a hypothetical
post-apocalyptic scenario where there is nothing left to save. The choice fell
on a seascape of Sant'Antioco island, that I recently visited at a time when I
thought I had some certainties about the future, and which struck me for the
presence of small natural pools that formed microcosms among the smooth rocks.
I could not have known that this work, with its atmosphere of desolation and
bewilderment, would today also come to speak of my condition as a neo-thirties
who feels having lost the way - or the faith on dreams.