WHO I AM
When, amidst my doubts, I search for an answer to who I am and where I come from, he is always there to drag me to find myself.
It did it when I was a child because I was born by the sea, on the tip of a very high cliff. When it was rough, the waves would knock on the window of my house and I would run to watch it. It does it again today, after many years spent far from its scent, where a call has brought me to live, this time, on another cliff overlooking other lands south.
It's a sea that always whispers something intimate to me.
It is a sea that has the same beat and the same breath as always.
It is a sea whose vastness, as I see it today, stirs new emotions, thoughts, and fears that seemingly seek a safe harbor, but unconsciously remain anchored to that freedom gained over the years that always allows me to nourish my curiosity and my research.
Maria Cristina Picciolini.
BIO
Maria Cristina Picciolini was born in 1966 in Orbetello in the province of Grosseto.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
After the Academy he taught, organizing drawing and painting courses in his home town.
In 1994 he moved to Germany and until 2014 he taught drawing and painting at the Freie Akademie in Munich.
He has participated in group exhibitions in some German galleries.
Since 2015 she has lived and worked in Syracuse as an author and ceramic artist.
Publications:
She published in 2012 as an illustrator, with the doctor and writer Alberto Pellai,
Distances published by Erickson, Trento.
Author of the 2014 book Mare Magnum. (40 stories of life and art outside and inside Italy).
Author in 2016 of a collection of 45 poems entitled, The Life That Looks at Me and Still Inspires Me.
Author of the essay "Intuizioni d'autore" published by Porto Seguro in 2016.
In 2017, she wrote the essay "Fish Bones. Phenomenology of the Ortigia Market," published by Sampognaro & Pupi of Syracuse.
She published in 2019 as a children's illustrator, with the writer Eleonora Bellini,
“The House by the Sea,” published by Fabbrica dei Segni.
Author of the book Two Half Faces of an Island published in 2022 by Verlag ohne Geld