About Me
I grew up wild.
Everything about modern civilization is designed to teach children not to be our natural selves. From birth, we’re taught how we’re allowed to be, act, and feel. We’re shackled with rules and caged by expectations. It leaves us disconnected from our bodies, nature, and our instincts.
Humanity is becoming domesticated.
I am afraid. I’m scared that if we don’t change things, one day in the not-too-distant future there will be no wilderness left and no human alive who remembers what human instinct feels like. I must do everything in my power to not let that happen.
I am an autistic artist who grew up in the wilderness of Canada. The eldest child of Italian alpinist and explorer Reinhold Messner, you might say the mountains are in my blood. I’m not much of a climber, but I love to hike and I can’t live without nature. It’s equally important to me to feel connected to nature when inside my home.
I believe that humans are animals. We’re as much a part of nature as wildlife is. And it’s time to reclaim our wildness – that’s the purpose of my art.
My artwork is abstract, expressive, and gestural. I’m a very physical, feeling-based person and a process-based artist. For me, painting is about expressing feeling through color, texture, and movement. I paint from instinct – so that my art can speak directly to your inner animal and remind you what it’s like to be free.
