I still keep this desire hidden inside! It has been a big step for me to move from small surfaces to giant walls, and I feel like it’s enough for the moment. I don’t feel that this focus on walls is an obstacle that prevents me from developing different kinds of work in the future, but of course, making murals totally satisfies my creative pursuit for now.

I think that studying architecture but, most of all, loving it, has shown me the limitations of life early on. When I had finished my university studies, Italy – just like the rest of Europe – was hit by the economic crisis. In that specific moment, it was very clear to see that everything that made me love the idea of becoming an architect was disappearing behind the only actual career prospects of creating terrible buildings in order to sell them. No more art, no more beauty. So, I focused on my urgent desire to communicate a deeper message and started creating my own art instead.

Among my own works, I’m totally unable to pick one. However, I try to incorporate different levels of meaning into each of them. Thus, some people only see two characters playing in my murals; others, only the chaotic background; but most of them see the interplay between our daily lives in an urban jungle and the potential to remain pure while inhabiting it. I hope that this combination is present in all of my murals.

By being one of them. I’m the one who could have built a better place for us to live in, I’m the one who lives in these kinds of cities, and I’m also the one who dreams of something different. What I actually do is compress all these different feelings into one and spread them out onto a wall.

I have ‘considered it’ in the sense of having and holding onto the idea of making such a decision possible. Maybe one day I will.

I’m glad that my audience doesn’t find them boring! Each wall could be considered similar to the previous one because of my signature style. But every time, in each city, I focus on a different aspect of it. I let myself feel inspired by the place itself, by its history, its beauty, and its contradictions.

The thing is, I never abandoned the critical perspective. I still adhere to it in a more harmonious way. The consequence, maybe, is that now I allow my audience to interpret my murals as they like, not only as I want them to.

In Ukraine, there was not a single tree or any space to walk beside my mural before, and now there’s a lovely garden made by the same people who live in the building on which it was painted. In Milan, there was a sort of open-air junkyard in front of the walls I painted, now there’s a cultural space. I have a lot of similar examples!

I always think that, sooner or later, I’ll be back to check in on them again! Besides, I’m not sad when I leave ‘cause from the moment a wall is finished it doesn’t belong to me anymore, but to all of the people who live in that particular place.

I don’t like postponing, so I always tell myself, do it today, you’ll never know what’ll happen tomorrow. That’s also one reason for me not to give up and to keep pushing and fighting for what I want to do.

Hotels are my second home, so my relationship with them is absolutely great! Sometimes the real problem is coming back home and remembering that I have to work to keep everything working!

I’m going to join two social festivals in my home country – Italy!