I have been in a race with time, a race that I could only lose.
But what and how much have I lost? What and how much have I gained by being Roberto Vescovo online?
I have struggled for days with my memories, some real, some imagined, days when it all resembled some sick game. Ever trying to uncover and discover how best to present myself. With my work on hold, cut off from that which I love/my loved ones, until now when I have gained that vital insight that I never would have thought it possible to dwell on. I have discovered that a primordial symbol has been a constant companion in both my life and my work.
Iron and fire
I toiled, sweated, hardened my muscles, blistered my skin when, as a youth perhaps trying to feel a man, I would beat and pound that red-hot iron, in my exuberance forging shapes, some well, some less well defined. But then I tired of this battle and therefore...
Water and fire
Some years later I sought to quench that burning ardour with water, in all its transparency. But fire will not be tamed, and my attempts to quench it were thwarted by a relentless quest for nobility.
Transparency and fire
Only now can I comprehend the potency of that element, that fire. I do not yet know if this journey will be the final one I embark on, but until then, I shall continue, cradled in the thrall of transparency and fire, my emotions catching fire at the thought of my “creatures”, resurrected by dint of some arcane knowledge, my devotion or my destiny shared in equal measure and without compromise between what I love/my loved ones and my work.
Born Venice 1969.