
Utopia is just my way of seeing life. Especially my life.
I was born with a hereditary blood disease, haemophilia. The main feature of this disease is that the blood of the sick can not coagulate. So the wounds don't heal without medicine.
I discovered I had this disease with the extraction of a tooth. And for a simple tooth extraction, I was going to die.
Today in Italy, out of 60 million people, there are 4000 people with this disease.
Children have many dreams, and I had many too. But growing up I realised that for me no dream could be fully realised.
This disease prevents me from doing so many things, it hinders me in many things, even daily.
I feel as though I am in a glass bubble. Fragile. I still can't accept it much.
I chose Utopia as my word, and I chose the neck as the place to tattoo it, because I can get up in the morning and look at it in the mirror.
I remind myself how beautiful dreams are. Even the ones I can never accomplish.
As I said most work I can not physically do. In my country, manual factory work is too dangerous for me. There's a good chance of getting cut, or bruised.
For about a year I have been trying to express myself as I can with drawing.
Art is above all a therapy. Art is a psychophysical cure.
When I draw I can still dream, as I did as a child. And I hope that what I do will help everyone, even those like me who have often felt "lost", without a place in this world.
Art helped me. I had dreams in my hands, and when I opened them, dreams flew away like flies.
written by alessio
italy