Upstream from Ponte Vecchio is the jetty of the rowing club. Backlit photos can be taken when members approach to the dock and prepare their canoes for daily training. I used almost entirely a mixture of sepia and Ultramarine blue to increase the drama of the scene. I used the dry brushing technique to render the reflections on the water.

I stopped in Bolzano, Italy, at sunset. The square was full of people who were enjoying their cocktails.

In Bolzano the summer is very short because the Alps are very close and there is a clear feeling that the sun is intense but also ephemeral, and quickly is replaced by cold in late evening. The light bounces under the umbrellas and vibrates, illuminating the red faces. Watercolor is the perfect technique to capture the fleetingness of that moment, because it does not allow you to keep the details, but instead loses a part of them and the entire picture style may change suddenly. We can use that as the metaphor of Time passing through our happy moments.

Viareggio is a small city on the coast of Tuscany, famous expecially because of a crazy carnival on february. In the late afternoon the vendors stop to rest and meet. They are people without illusions, involved in the Italian reality that offers them no chance of emancipation, and yet they remain in good mood by nature, they give motivation each other by joining together and creating communities. They have a strong sense of family and sociability and that has always given me to travel to Africa to better know myself and their culture. When the world “comes” to my land to visit me, I feel the need to know it better.

Viareggio beach is huge and full of private parts. However, there are no barriers and in winter everything is abandoned and therefore it can be occupied by wanderers.

When I lived in Spain I wasn't a professional artist yet, but I was dreaming of becoming one. Avila is for me one of the most suggestive Spanish cities and certainly the one where I had the best meal. In a weekend of early summer in 2008 an open air painting competition (there it is called "pintura rápida") gave me the unstoppable impulse to attend as soon as possible a drawing classes. And it was the beginning of my artistic training.