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. 

I believe that humans are animals. We’re as much a part of nature as wildlife is. And we all have the right to be and express our natural selves, the way wild animals do.