CANTIERI DI STRADA 2010 first prize winner (FNAS - Street Art National Federation Italy)

The inspirational theme :

The homeless are the inspiration for the project.
More precisely, we have chosen to deal with that aspect that makes these people paradoxically similar to, while at the same time distant from, each one of us.
Similar physically (in that we live in the same towns, on the same streets, on the same street pavements) and socially (because each one of their stories could be our own). Distant, on the other hand, because of their lifestyle which, being so different from ours, brings them to perceive and live our same reality with another system of values, both material and emotional.
Having had these initial thoughts, we didn't seriously pretend to step into the shoes of a homeless person, of course not, but allowing ourselves to get caught up in some of their tales, our imagination transported us to a bizarre and grotesque universe where "living on the streets" is not seen as a condemnation but rather as the freedom to treat the city as a home and to take advantage of everything that it puts in their way, inventing new uses for that which we consider rubbish….