Face 

Editor: This sketch by Francesco Didioni, simply titled "Face," is captivating. The pencil lines feel so raw and immediate. There's a somber quality to it, don’t you think? What grabs your attention when you look at it? Curator: It feels like a half-remembered dream, doesn't it? The soft washes, perhaps watercolor overlaid with those frantic pencil scratches, give the impression of something fragile and fleeting, like memory itself. I see someone caught in thought, burdened maybe, or perhaps just profoundly aware of their own internal world. Look how the darkest marks concentrate around the eyes and mouth - windows to a soul, as they say, weighted down with secrets untold. Is that paper repair tape in the corner there, too? Oddly touching that it’s still around. Editor: That's a great point! I hadn’t really considered that the *age* of the piece itself adds to that feeling. What's your take on the unfinished aspect? Is that a statement in itself? Curator: Absolutely! I’m often drawn to the incomplete. It is where possibility lies, after all. Here, those tentative lines invite *us* to participate, to finish the story, to feel the weight of the unseen. A completely finished piece dictates; this, it whispers. We might even ponder if Didioni left it unresolved on purpose. To invite us in a little closer... perhaps just to look deeply and listen more carefully. Editor: Wow, that makes me see it completely differently. It's less about the absence of something and more about the invitation. Curator: Exactly! It’s in that ambiguity that art truly lives. Editor: So true. Thanks for opening my eyes to the untold narrative within this beautiful face!