Dino Caruso

Website: https://dinocarusogalvagno.com/

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Dino Caruso Galvagno (1988) is a Sicilian illustrator based in Madrid. He's always liked stories and hidden communication, allegories and metaphors, that's what He's trying to do with his work: tell something beyond the surface. He currently works with international science and political magazines and in different personal projects.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?: "Reading" sorry but it's not my quote.

Which living person do you most admire?: In a room full of living persons that I admire, there could be some artists from different places of the world, some musicians and writers, some directors, brave and smart people some beside to my mom and my grandmother and they wouldn't know what to do all in these room.

What is your greatest extravagance?: I'm not apparently extravagant, but I have some obsessions and some oddities.

What is your current state of mind?: Totally panta rei.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?: Definitely optimism.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?: Let's have lunch?!

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?: If I change myself maybe I'd never be myself, anyway I prefer don't want to risk.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?: I always get what I want, I mean obsessing to get it.

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?: It's a very complex question because If I were to come back as a person I'd prefer someone totally different to me by sex, culture... ideally it would be someone from another time. If I were to come back as a thing, I'd prefer a very wild animal, not necessarily dangerous but just wild.

Where would you most like to live?: I prefer somewhere beautiful, a wild place in nature, maybe mysterious. I'm torn between desolated mountains and magnificent sea.

What is your most treasured possession?: Might be obvious but my most valuable possessions are my hands, my mind, everything I know and everything I've learned, I wouldn't trade myself for the world.

What is your favorite occupation?: I'm an artist, of course my favourite occupation is creating.

What is your most marked characteristic?: They've told me that obstinacy.

What do you most value in your friends?: Humanity all its facets, empathy, the ability to listen, dedication and care. To be ready to "hide the body".

Who are your favorite writers?: Leonardo Sciascia, Calvino, Dino Buzzati, Miguel Herńandez, Ian McEwan, Faulkner, Perec, Ágota Kristóf, Philip Pullman, Jonathan Coe, Thoreau, Anna Achmatova.

Who is your hero of fiction?: I feel identified with Charlie Brown.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?: I love history, it's so difficult to choose one historical figure. Rather than feeling identified with, I'm intrigued by a few figures like Alexander the Great, Frederick II, Mary I of England, Joan of Arc, Isabella I, Joanna of Castile and his grandchild Philip II...

Who are your heroes in real life?: All the brave and kind people.

What is it that you most dislike?: Cowardice and ignorance.

What is your greatest regret?: I try to have no regrets, because I'm so obstinate that I might not survive my own regrets.

What is your motto?: Motto? I don't have any puppet with this name.