Experience Articles

Last comes the crow

Last comes the crow

Although it is not really a crow, but a chough, it brought to mind a story by Calvino [...] Then the soldier stood up and pointed to the black bird with his finger. “There is the crow there!” he shouted, in his own language. The bullet caught him right in the middle...

Another Catcher in the Rye  (NY)

Another Catcher in the Rye  (NY)

"I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. "J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the RyeTraveling to for work in NY I realized how, sometimes, reality can overcome imagination.

150 kilometers by foot in 2 days

150 kilometers by foot in 2 days

May 2021. 150 kilometers walking by foot in 2 days from Cassina de' Pecchi to Lecco (…and back…) To free yourself from the superfluous at every step, regain lightness and redefine priorities

Just a matter of moon and finger (ROME)

Just a matter of moon and finger (ROME)

Sometimes the pursuit of The Great Beauty blinds one to the preciousness of certain details. Sometimes it is better to focus on the details and let beauty be the background. When the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger, but sometimes that very...

All Sindelfingen lines (GERMANY)

All Sindelfingen lines (GERMANY)

A thousand lines (to draw a house) are not enough... Doing and redoing the same design over and over again with obsession is a way to get closer and closer to the final solution

Three cups of tea in Ningbo (CHINA)

Three cups of tea in Ningbo (CHINA)

There is a time to run and a time to sit... During three working trips to China I experienced how hectic and whirling time flow of production can coexist with the slow and contemplative time flow of listening