{"id":2582,"date":"2026-03-16T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/landscapes-and-travel-in-watercolors\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T22:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:56:52","slug":"landscapes-and-travel-in-watercolors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/landscapes-and-travel-in-watercolors\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscapes and travel in watercolors"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are in: Home<\/a> \/ Watercolors<\/a>\/ Acquerelli paesaggi e viaggi<\/p>\n<\/div>

WATERCOLORS “LANDSCAPES AND TRAVELS”<\/h3>\n<\/div>

I do not seek praise. I seek understanding.
When someone says they like my work, I remain indifferent.
But when someone demonstrates that they truly understand it, then I am happy; I feel a sense of satisfaction, and a genuine curiosity about how it is being understood.
If I give a lecture in a language the audience does not know, the applause is meaningless. I have failed to communicate. There has been no understanding.
To communicate, one must know each other\u2019s languages\u2014one\u2019s respective modes of expression.
In my travels, I have very often found myself living day-to-day among people whose language I did not know, and who, in turn, did not know mine.
\nWhether I found myself on a beach shaded by coconut palms, lost in an arid valley between mountains, or surrounded by the sand dunes of some desert, I would sit on the ground, take a travel notebook and a pencil from my bag, and begin to draw. I started with the basics: a fish, an octopus, a jellyfish, a boat. Fishermen\u2014surrounded by their wives and children\u2014would begin to laugh, telling me the names, which I would then write down beneath each image. I would repeat the words aloud. I was learning. And I kept on drawing: a fish, a goat, a Bedouin tent, the sun, the moon and the stars, clouds, flashes of lightning, rain. Beneath every drawing, I would write the corresponding word, trying to commit it to memory. Then, I would draw animals\u2014a buffalo, an eagle, a parrot, a scorpion. I would act out various actions to learn more names, sketching the gestures of milking a goat\u2014the milk, the glass, the act of drinking. They would laugh, clearly amused, while I continued to draw: woven palm leaves, huts made of stone and brushwood blanketed in snow, camels resting on the ground.
\nI communicated through images; they would recognize them and respond by naming what they saw, finding joy in the inner experience of grasping an image\u2014an experience as ancient and primal as visual art itself, a form of communication through visual shapes.
They understood me, I understood them; we understood one another.
Whenever it was time for me to leave, they would grow sad\u2014but I would tear the pages from my sketchbook, where I had drawn their world, and, with a bow, present them as a gift. Their smiles would return, and they would laugh, content.
I would vanish from their lives, but the drawings would remain.
At least, until a typhoon, an avalanche, or a storm at sea came to snatch them away.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Hydra<\/a><\/div>

Hydra – Grecia<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"New<\/a><\/div>

New England – Boston<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"New<\/a><\/div>

New England – Providence<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"Manik<\/a><\/div>

Manik Ganga – Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"N.O.H.<\/a><\/div>

N.O.H. Galle – Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Honduras\"<\/a><\/div>

Honduras<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"Laguna<\/a><\/div>

Laguna – Grado<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Laguna<\/a><\/div>

Laguna – Grado<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Ascoli<\/a><\/div>

Ascoli Piceno<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"Sittulpawa<\/a><\/div>

Sittulpawa – Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Sittulpawa<\/a><\/div>

Sittulpawa – Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Galle<\/a><\/div>

Galle Fort – Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"Kandy<\/a><\/div>

Kandy – Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Sri<\/a><\/div>

Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Sri<\/a><\/div>

Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Sri<\/a><\/div>

Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Barletta\"<\/a><\/div>

Barletta<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Sri<\/a><\/div>

Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div>
\"Barletta\"<\/a><\/div>

Barletta<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Sri<\/a><\/div>

Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Sri<\/a><\/div>

Sri Lanka<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"Levanto\"<\/a><\/div>

Levanto<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Ventotene\"<\/a><\/div>

Ventotene<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Ventotene\"<\/a><\/div>

Ventotene<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"Levanto\"<\/a><\/div>

Levanto<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Ventotene\"<\/a><\/div>

Ventotene<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Ventotene\"<\/a><\/div>

Ventotene<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"Puglia\"<\/a><\/div>

Puglia<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Lecce\"<\/a><\/div>

Lecce<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Lecce\"<\/a><\/div>

Lecce<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"Istanbul\"<\/a><\/div>

Istanbul<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Istanbul\"<\/a><\/div>

Istanbul<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\"Hydra<\/a><\/div>

Hydra – Grecia<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Categorie della sezione Acquerelli<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/a><\/span>

Significativi<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/span>

Natura<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/span>

Corpi e visi<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/span>

Paesaggi e viaggi<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/span>

Interni e esterni<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/span>

Rosoni<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/span>

Patterns<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/a><\/span>

Et alia<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2582","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2582\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pierocrida.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}