"In my recent work, I would like to tell you about this memory, there are underlying spiritual elements with an autobiographical background closed in images where everything is given as an essence, as a mental smell, as a symbol, as a projection of thought. In the enclosure of language the subject takes on a new vitality, in new circumstances, which breaks the old patterns to evoke that music which is the desire to live again, a precious critical confession of mine of the adventure of life, a line of reflection linked to the signs born from the post-operative fog which then became strong and precise crystal, a flow of images between me and the world, mixed with my fragile breath which supported the body in that moment, folds of the soul invaded by light, to concoct a story also as a future intuition in the silent river of time." — Mario Giacomelli, 2000