have you ever happened to fight against a text that literally refuses to be written?...lines and passages seeming to live their own life
and showing sort of an all-own stubbornness (or shyness, pride, malice?...call it what you like), quarrelsome words that create
endless obstacles to any transcription - the nib bends or cracks, the ink spreads to smear a paper that had never spotted before,
the sheet is crimped and recalcitrant - so irritating!...anyway, I tried again, and I'll try again - being stubborn is something I know
so well! (from Umberto Saba, "Ulisse", 1946)

- Fabriano "Sketch", 120 g/mq

- Favini "Calligraphy Canvas", 200 g/mq

- Sardinian rough cork

- gold leaf 22 kt on PVA

- Maimeri gouaches

- "Officina Di Scrittura" night blue & nut brown inks