Extra-ordinary life

There is no doubt that we live a chaotic yet at the same time extra-ordinary life. The prefix “extra” separated by the hyphen stands for every thing which goes beyond the ordinary, the apparent banality of our existence until it reaches those boundless territories which touch the totality of man and of the universe. It is a thin line which divides the two dimensions and the two poles flow one into the other.

In everyday life, each individual is immersed in daily activities and habits. The role of the artist is to bring out, to upset this “everydayness” through creative thinking which produces energetic sparks able to shake up our common sense and reality. It is the capacity to see beyond the depths of our existence, to be amazed by the mystery of the things of this world. It is the cathartic and purifying purpose of imagination. It is the desire to continue to provoke in the spectator, nowadays so used to seeing too much and badly, existential energy in its essence, a new joie de vivre.

Art intervenes to fill the gaping hole of human ennuie, of emptiness of the spirit. To be able to see in the fleeting moment of our daily life new extra-ordinary horizons of the senses, means to go beyond the visible, to look for that truth hiding in all the ephemera of our existence.

Because the invisible harmony is superior to the visible, and the extraordinariness of life is not the exception, but the real potential which each of us harbours within. Extra-ordinariness, extra-sensory, means going beyond limits, exploring new dimensions and multiple codes. It is the land of creativity as diffused energy, because artists hear before and more than others, their energy charge is a spiritual gift of sensorial enrichment, a fragment of creative cosmic energy which elevates oneself and the others. This awareness of the extra-ordinary of life represents the key to understanding the poetic work of artists. It is the extra-ordinariness of being creative individuals called upon to answer for and witness what may be seen beyond matter, beyond the realm of what is known. That which has its origin in the sensorial experience is translated in the ability and will to communicate. That which is ordinary in life may take on heroic proportions, extraordinary, to be precise. Extraordinary life is creative life, in that the creativity which is inherent in every human being , requires an intense effort to be lived, it does not fear the conflict between vital strength and strength of stasis, it always drinks at the spring of liberty.

— Stefania Carrozzini