In many cases, I experience lively energy in front of my unfinished ones: that feeling of a sunny Saturday afternoon when I was 10 years old. It is a physical sensation in my stomach, of when after the week of school I would ride my bicycle in the open air, in the countryside with friends. That feeling of push, that “it can be done”, the joy of going beyond the way home: wild freedom and “anything is possible”.
If I say “unfinished”, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
My life: goals to be achieved and ideas to be realized alongside things that are unfinished and that will probably remain so. Incompleteness is a concept that, for the most part, I live in a positive sense, that of the journey. Some things will be lost along the way, others will be left behind, but what I truly believe in, sooner or later, I will certainly bring to an end. Incomplete then is a possibility, that of still having time.
Unfinished, what colour or shape is it?
A dark colour in the past, but which is getting brighter and brighter at this time of my life.
What is your relationship with unfinished things?
In many cases, I experience lively energy in front of my unfinished ones: that feeling of a sunny Saturday afternoon when I was 10 years old. It is a physical sensation in my stomach, of when after the week of school I would ride my bicycle in the open air, in the countryside with friends. That feeling of push, that “it can be done”, the joy of going beyond the way home: wild freedom and “anything is possible”. I am reminded of a song from my adolescence by Francesco Guccini that says: “But how I wish I still have everything to look at like books to leaf through / And still have everything, or almost everything, to try”.
A fertilizer you would need / your favourite fertilizer?
The comparison helps me to overcome moments of procrastination and indecision. Talking with others, reading a book, watching a film or listening to inspiring speeches: confrontation is the discovery of new points of view, a change of perspective that nourishes me.
3 words that you would use to describe the unfinished?
Unique: I am thinking of some works in the field of architecture or music, which have become works of art starting from their incompleteness. Failure: in the negative sense of the unfulfilled and regret. In the making: the meaning I prefer, that of seeing in the incompleteness that hidden opportunity, to be seized when we are ready.