Francesco Carovillano
By nature and image-making I preserve discovering who I’m. The extra I get older, the extra these two issues merge collectively.
I’m a full-time panorama photographer primarily working within the forest of Fontainebleau, France.
These days, psychologists know that artistic adults are those that managed to reconnect with their childhood pursuits and delve deeper into these passions after the turbulent instances of adolescence. Finding out Hokusai, it appears he by no means misplaced that connection.
Dante Alighieri, in his Divine Comedy, having misplaced his approach inside the depth of a mid-life disaster, meets and departs on an imaginary journey along with his mentor, Virgil, a poet who lived 1000 years earlier than him and whom he tremendously admired. I’ve at all times appreciated this concept to do some introspective work with the imaginary assist of a revered grasp from the previous. I determine that if I’d ever discover myself in Dante’s scenario, I’d most likely image Hokusai as my Virgil and would belief him to place me again on the best path.
Halfway upon the journey of our life
I discovered myself inside a forest darkish,
For the simple pathway had been misplaced.
~Dante Alighieri, the start of his Divine Comedy
Hokusai retained the playful perspective and innate ever-blooming curiosity of a kid all through his life. These days, psychologists know that artistic adults are those that managed to reconnect with their childhood pursuits and delve deeper into these passions after the turbulent instances of adolescence. Finding out Hokusai, it appears he by no means misplaced that connection. He at all times felt a deep fascination with the world and a profound love for his craft, at all times wanting to know the world and evolve via it.
Curiosity is every thing. For that reason, and for all of the details about him on this textual content, in Dante’s scenario, I’d comply with Hokusai.
