WHO I AM
When among my doubts I look for an answer to who I am and where I come from, he is always there who drags me to look for myself.
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He did it when I was a child because I was born by the sea, on the tip of a very high cliff, which when it was rough, the waves knocked on the window of the house and I ran to look at it. It does it again today, after many years of living far from its smell, where a call led me to live, this time, on another cliff that looks south at other lands.
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It is the sea that always whispers something intimate to me.
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It is the sea that has the same heartbeat and breath as always.
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It is the sea which, with its vastness, in my view today, moves new emotions, thoughts and fears which apparently seek a safe haven, but unconsciously remain anchored to that freedom conquered over the years which allows me every time to nourish my curiosity and my research.
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Maria Cristina Picciolini.
BIO
Maria Cristina Picciolini was born in 1966 in Orbetello in the province of Grosseto.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
After the Academy she teaches, drawing and painting courses in her country of origin.
In 1994 she moved to Germany and until 2014 taught drawing and painting at the Freie Akademie in Munich.
She has participated in group exhibitions in German galleries.
Since 2015 she has lived and worked in Syracuse as an author and ceramic artist.
Publications:
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She published in 2012 as an illustrator, with the doctor and writer Alberto Pellai,
Distances published by Erickson, Trento.
Author in 2014 with the book Mare Magnum. (40 stories of life and art outside and inside Italy).
Author in 2016 of a collection of 45 poems, The life that looks at me and still inspires me.
Author in 2016 of the essay Intuizioni d'autore published by Porto Seguro.
Author of the essay Fish Bones in 2017. Phenomenology of the Ortigia market, published by Sampognaro & Pupi of Siracusa.
She published in 2019 as a children illustrator, with the writer Eleonora Bellini,
“The house by the sea”, published by Fabbrica dei Segni.
Author in 2022 of the book Two Half Faces of an Island published by Verlag ohne Geld