Raised in Emilia’s lowlands in a respectable family, his father was a botanist, his mother a teacher, and all of his siblings were also educators. From childhood to high school, he explored the cosmos by playing with the divine innocent, the frowning orphan, the eccentric explorer, and, most of all, the rebel accomplice. The traveling companions were influential and untamed always intrigued and eager to challenge authority. Impudent and reckless, they soon found themselves in trouble and got lost while wandering across Europe.
Upon his return, after a bold period of self-discovery, he joined the peaceful dreamer and spent time in nature with other young people like them. They resided in secluded castles and ancient convents, stone huts in the woods, and farms on faraway islands.
As a result, they studied how to live in the adult world by tending to the vineyard and producing wine, cultivating the vegetable garden to feed on seasonal fruits, caring for and loving animals that would later become their livelihood, and working in the fields with carpenter, bricklayer, and gardener's tools. They learned how to make and knead bread for tables of a hundred or more people.
All of this was experienced with the appreciation and pleasure of someone who had fled a dangerous situation.
As the weeks went by, the visionary creator and his new partner, the hero, mustered the strength to take control of the game themselves. Fueled by an urge to create, by their mysterious investigation into materials, and drawn to the multi-potential of their expressive talent, the resourceful performers sailed every sea and anchored in a thousand ports. They crossed vast oceans on a graceful bamboo raft, followed by the clever jester and the fearless wanderer.
He learned to tell stories in many different ways, relying on his imagination and three decades of creative freedom. He began by drawing in his fellow students’ school diaries, sculpting with clay and glass, spending afternoons at the junkyard building with scraps of discarded dreams, riding the revolutions of the iMac G3 and the Mini DV Handy Cam, coding instructions to the computer processor, and mastering the secrets of cinema, ultimately designing the epic architectures of the Metaverse.
Then, as if returning to where it all started, there was a brief silence among the delights of love, the precious study of magical things, and the power of rituals. The sage’s wisdom and the healer’s esoteric knowledge guided him down the path of alchemical transformation through the transcendence of his own stories, lulled by the waves of the breath of his personal myth.