@alessiadovero

21 years old

Cuneo, Italy

 

How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?

My daily life is locked in a room and I stay with it. Forced into four walls, I often find myself taking imaginary walks around Florence or waiting for the bus that never arrives in the early morning. Fantasies aside, I could say that the step count on my iPhone is inversely proportional to the amount of things I have learned and I am learning in this quarantine. I let myself be carried away by the idea of being able to achieve anything by finding solutions with what I already have at home at my disposal, with the pure objective of creating creating creating. Daily motto: to adapt without limitation.

 

Your work is built on creativity. While we’re all in quarantine, what is your solution to keep on being creative? Where do you find your inspiration in this moment?

For me, Creativity is knowing how to observe, to look out the window and imagine, but also play with the things around us and give them new life, without fear of making mistakes. The secret to keeping it alive is hungry curiosity and knowledge. But how can we feed ourselves? Luckily there are plenty of platforms where you can WATCH documentaries, films, old Baricco broadcasts that read books (for example Rai Play is well stocked); LISTENING to radio programs (Parole e Note on Radio Capital is a good mix of poems, philosophy, film clips and music) and podcasts on any topic (lately I listen to Morgana, written by Michela Murgia, it is a beautiful collection of stories of "Women who want to like themselves and not please you, a little fairies and very witches, beautiful and terrible together "and also on Fondazione Prada there are interesting podcasts, or on museum sites - for example the Rivoli castle has collected a good amount of video performances, photos of various artists under the caption of Cosmo Digitale); READ everything that happens by the hand and not, books, magazines, newspapers, dictionaries ... Equally important is WRITING documenting fears, feelings, writing poetry, shaping thoughts, the air, writing even just words, taking care of them as if they were plants, keeping a diary, keeping a dream diary, ... Everyone has their own formula of creativity, there is no right or wrong, you have to jump in and get carried away by instinct.

 

What is your biggest fear right now?

Right now my biggest fear is the prospect of no longer being able to experience the little things of everyday life (go to the library, walk the crowded streets, go to the cinema or museum, queue for ice cream and listen to the conversation of the one in front, hear someone laugh spontaneously, pick the flowers at Villa Demidoff, spend the first Sunday of the month reading at Boboli ...) but above all, to live people (invite friends to dinner, go for an aperitif, go to the square and make new acquaintances, kiss and hug each other, drink from the same glass, have a picnic, meet by chance in the street, slip into five in the same machine of the photos on a rainy Saturday evening, share the table in the restaurant with strangers. ..)

 

What will you do once all of this is over?

I am positive, I believe that after this crisis we will reborn stronger and more unique than ever, we just have to believe in it, get strength, continue to dream and be ready to reinvent ourselves!