I've been born to draw. Last 20 years of my life I was somehow sleeping in the corners of myself, trying to be a good mother, a good daughter, and a good wife. But lately, something clicked in me. I couldn't be the same person I've become with time. I had an unexplainable desire to come out of that shell, I didn't feel happy. The passing year was an awakening for me. I looked inside myself, and living in the Sadness I was feeling, I was able to reach out to my inner self. That's how all those drawings were born.

I call this project of mine "Search of the Inner Child". We all have the inner child living in us, waiting to be saved somehow. So I did find mine! I have promised never to abandon Her again. My little "Gabriele". When I draw, I am with Her. The most amazing process to see myself unfold. Only an artistic person would understand. My drawings are like meditation to me. I could pour longing, sadness, happiness, hope, desires, fears, dreams.. into my drawings. I can conquer the dragons living inside of me first, I can fly with butterflies, I can sleep under the night sky, dance by the fire.. you can be wild, and free, and become just a little detail in the universe. You can become part of nature, be nature.

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