In 2020 Cecilia Canziani, Lara Conte and Paola Ugolini, the curators of the exhibition ‘IO DICO IO’ at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, asked me to come up with a work in relation to the Carla Lonzi Archive. After delving into that vast wealth of material, I discovered Carla Lonzi’s first diary, which she had begun writing at the age of thirteen.
The first page of the notebook dated 1 January 1945 starts like this: ‘I really wanted to own a notebook where I could write my diary. Finally, I have one.’
I read these words as if they were the beginning of a work that ploughs the furrow of a trajectory destined to last a lifetime, a lengthy road as she attempted to construct a space to stay in and from where to state her presence in the world.  
These words resounded with me and I recognised them as if they had also been written for me. They influenced my small gesture to bring together our two writings with simplicity, affinity and harmony: my diary of colours and her diary of words.

(Written in 2021)