This year too, the colorful Street Art Festival took place in Marietta, Georgia. Like every year, dozens of artists gathered around the fantastic Marietta Square, giving life to their creations with traditional style works, 3D works and some vertical panels.
My painting is inspired by the novel “The Baron in the Trees” by Italo Calvino, a 20th-century Italian writer whose 100th anniversary is celebrated. The protagonist is Cosimo, scion of a noble Ligurian family, who at the age of 12, following an argument with his father, decides to climb a tree and never come down again for the rest of his life.
Cosimo grows up but always stays true to himself and his ideas, moving only through woods and forests and gradually building a day-to-day life in the trees.
Cosimo’s lifestyle turns into a path of growth and maturity, teaching us that human wealth can be found through a different point of view than the one mandated by society, which, sometimes simply out of laziness, encourages harmful behavior. “Those who wish to look carefully at the Earth should stay at the necessary distance.”
The Book teaches the importance of staying true to one’s ideologies and the respect for Nature, from which one can get everything one needs.
The Journey was stormy, but the welcome and meeting with Friends from all over the world erased any second thoughts.
Sketch.
Drawing on asphalt.
Detail of the face of the child who is reading the book and imagining the story .
Me at work!
Cosimo, the protagonist of the book ” The Baron in the Trees”.
Finish!Chalk on asphalt Mt 3×3
Thanks to Sally Tanner Macaulay and her wonderful Staff, and my Sponsors: Bentley, Bentley, & Bentley. In Memory of Fred Bentley, Sr and Poole’s Pharmacy who made it possible for me to attend this event!