Received October 28, 2020.
Going back in thought and retracing my personal history, I can say that I grew up forged from a pragmatic and rational education derived from the ideas of my father and, at the same time, from an artistic experience that my mother has imprinted in my DNA since conception, being an artist and creator of fashion design, since the mid-40s of the last century.
I remember that as a boy I was very attracted by science, technology and also by the history of man and religions: so I read assiduously the weekly issues of an encyclopedia of science that were in vogue in the late 1960s and early 1970s. last century, the history of Western and Eastern religions, the Old and New Testament and various books that narrated archeology, the history of ancient art, the most recent technological discoveries at the time, various astronomy books dedicated to the solar system.
These readings led me to personal growth and the belief that science and art could help humanity to overcome the endemic problems of planet Earth. At that time, I thought that scientific rationality could be fundamental for a more rational use of the use of natural resources, through a greater complexity of organization, accumulation and equitable distribution among all peoples. Artistic creativity made me think of new forms of enhancement and distribution of natural food resources, of the various types of energy that could overturn the classic concepts of economy, through strategies that took into consideration economic balances between all the peoples of the world and not only those internal to a single state. I was thinking of a system of redistribution of natural, economic, scientific, cultural and social resources that could unite all the peoples of the Earth in a world of peace and prosperity.
These ideas of mine were expressed in two ways, with writing and, artistically, with the camera.
In 1972 I organized, with the patronage and contribution of KODAK, my first photographic exhibition at the Liceo Scientifico Alessandro Volta where I was studying and I presented a series of photographs on the drop of water which, after falling on the water, bounces forming a crown. In those years a very important and fundamental technological innovation for the development of new creative forms was introduced in the field of photography, the electronic flash. I, despite not having economic resources, I was able to borrow this new electronic instrument from a father of a friend of mine and I had made these scientific photos. The scientific term is always related to the historical era to which a given fact refers and, in 1972, there were few people who could have access to this technological innovation. Unfortunately these films have been lost.