All children are artists

‘All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.’- Pablo Picasso

In 2009 Ericailcane’s parents surprised him by giving him his own early childhood drawings, which they had kept safe for him for nearly 25 years. The book Potente di Fuoco shows these illustrations from 1985 side by side with his present-day reinterpretations. It is fascinating to see how a surrealistic artist came forth from an imaginative child that interpreted the world in a figurative way.