Light leaking (Velo bianco) Painting

What am I? People who know me and my works say “you are a scientist lent to Art”. Frankly speaking I believe that is ok. Scientists and Artists have many common characters. Since ancient times both want to find out how the world is made. Scientists use an intuitive model analogous to the artists. It feeds on analogies, metaphors, images and experiments.But they use also an analytical model based on the rigid application of a formal logic, which leaves little room for intuition, which is naturally the engine of artistic creativity. I was very impressed by coincidence with which a young scientist (Einstein) and a young artist (Picasso) at the same age of 26 years had caught, together, almost in unison, the "spirit of the times", breaking the barriers of physics and painting respectively in the same time without knowing each other and without knowing the work of the other. Today the Communication of Science cannot disregard Art. Now relevant decisions in Science are taken in partnership between scientists and a series of public of non-experts.We have moved from a world in which Science and Society were substantially separated, to a world in which Science and Society are strongly interpenetrated. The Science communication is no longer only the communication between scientists and must involve the audience of non experts. We all, in one way or another, are called to make important decisions on scientific topics, the most varied: from stem cells and cloning, to the changing climate and to the control of new weapons of mass destruction, to energy , to waste, to electromagnetic pollution, etc.).In summary, a fully democratic society today is a society that has great awareness of the scientific issues and of the communication processes that concern them. Art is one of the main tools chosen by man to interpret reality and to communicate and must become one of the main channels through which "scientific speculations" spread. When I moved to South Carolina (USA) in the early 90s, it helped a lot to learn that in Cambridge, near Boston, nearby the MIT (Massachusets Institute of Technology) the “American Academy of Science and Art” was founded at the end of 18th century, with the declared goal of "cultivating every Art and Science that could tend to increase interest, the honor, dignity and happiness of free, independent and virtuous people”.