"Snow Pattern" Painting

I walk. Each footstep creates my path. Before I start walking, I use a topographic map and my imagination to read the landscape. I first envisage the walk, then I go. Reaching a peak, descending into a valley, touching a point on the map. I walk along apredefined course. I follow a sound or instinctively arrive at an unknown point. When walking I create. Straight lines. Geometric shapes. I follow the lines of a ridge. The shores of a lake. The territory I pass through inspires me. I walk along the backbone of the mountain, over the jutting rocks, I’m fascinated by the contour lines and the curves which illustrate the map and I like to shadow imaginary lines along the ground. Walking is everything and all is resolved in walking. I document my activity. Each project has a date, the geographical coordinates of the areas I pass through, the hours and minutes taken. During each walk I leave a delible trace. I use diverse materials. The culmination of my experience on the ground is the staging of a “site-specific” work; further elaboration results in an exhibition. The “site-specific” works are a promise made to the territory which I cross, through which I travel, to the place which hosts me. When I leave a lamina of metal, a length of cloth between the rocks, when I amass a pile of stones, when I colour a branch, I’m not creating a sculpture. I completely own the place which welcomed me. I’m in syntony with it. Each walk is a journey into an unknown territory. I return only to recount all which I have seen and felt. This is my art. I’m walker, explorer, topographer, designer, and photograph, painter and sculptor contemporaneously.