Enzo Cirielli

I was born Aug.8,1951.
I first met the wood as a child, in the Gardena Valley. I would stand in a daze in the carvers' workshops: their minute gestures, the shapeless taking shape, the rhythmic sounds, the scent, the colour, the delight of witnessing the becoming.
Those small wooden statues did indelibly engrave on my memory, as well as their surrounding nature did.
Time, wretched and human vicissitudes, and death too, did move me away from the fairy tales for good. I preserved that world in my heart and in my mind, I kept the curiosity and the wonder of the child intact, together with the love for the treasures of the earth. One day, I was forced to mediate them with the acquaintance of the rarefied, often stupid world of men. Today, in an attempt to avoid the idiocy of maturity and get back to myself, to my human life, I make use of the wood.

During the 70s, after completing university, he follows the call of his deepest instincts and takes advantage of the time he spends abroad to take up with architectural, technical and interior design. At the same time he attains the professional civil pilot's and instructor's licence and specializes in the field of aerophotogrammetry.

His first approaches with writing dates back to university time, when he regularly collaborates with a local art and culture magazine.

After a short working experience in a agricultural association he moves to Guatemala. At the time he merges his passion for architecture and the creative process together with his enthusiasm for flying, as the essentials of technique and the possibility to access different visual perspectives than the usual ones.

Back to Italy he combines both passions by working in interior design and broadening his activity to aerophotogrammetry, getting involved as partner or collaborator in some companies dealing with aerial photography.

In 1997 he starts his own business in aerial photography and cartography and moves to Rome.

In 2002 he gets involved in the application of multimedia to the analysis of the territory and creates a new product, "In Flight on Paper©...