THE 2019 PRIZE "DISABILITY AND INCLUSION. LONELINESS AND SOLIDARITY" - Submitted works

Points of view
Disability by itself isn’t the problem , but our interpretation of it. In the end, it is us who make sense of things.
Techniques: Acquaforte, dry point, dry print

Flapping wings

I highlighted pregnancy as the beginning of life; the woman waiting for the disabled child has the solidarity of the other woman, and the children from the womb form one thing by giving each other trust, thus uniting the two women. I represented life with butterflies that fly freel...

HELP
A spiral of words points out that there are so many different forms of help and inclusion and different ways to express solidarity and proximity to the other.
The two human figures remember that the words always must have transformed in concrete actions. The two beings don't have a face beca...

THE ROUTE
A tridimensional handiwork that symbolizes moments of solitude that the disabled can meet on the route of his life. Routes where he gets isolated by other people that he wanted to be friends with. Paths where the disabled is alone on a way that seems empty. Solitude’s pitch black route ca...

THE ALLEY
A drawing, a metaphor for loneliness and solidarity, whose setting is a urban alley where the thoughts and the collective social behaviour towards disability are analysed.
Pencil and pen on paper

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE
To represent the theme of disability I wanted to focus  on a specific message  that does send, which is that no one should never feel different caused by her/his disability, but she/he is like everyone and she/he could realize her/his dreams.
techni...

Diversity is beauty
We often treat who we see different like an alien and we verge to exclude them. We don’t always get that our diversity is what make us a community.
Our differences are like beautiful flowers, colorful and perfect each one in its way, because their characteristics make theme uni...

SHADOWS AND RAINBOWS
A disabled person can meet people that might isolate him/her, people that can be like an opaque screen which only cast shadows. Next to these people there are, sooner or later, other people who are clear and let the Light go through. The Light, passing through, shows up in the ...

MY FRIEND
Two friends, one of them is a disabled boy. He introduces himself to all his friends, and wants to be accompanied and helped.

THE LOSS
From unbearable the pain, with time, become more attenuated and life returns to have colors and the unsestainability become lightness.
Technique: acquaforte

NO LONGER ALONE WITHOUT LABELS
“Because of superficiality, foolishness or wickness we often put labels on disable people and we isolate them. Everyone has the right to be know, respected and loved  for what they really are, by sympathizing with them. Anyone can remove a label, such as the post-it, ...

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT
For the cover of the book I made some simple designs with three main colors: the blue to indicate security, white the purity and red the love, all fundamental elements in the journey these guys. At the center of the cover we find a girl who communicates with two figu...

WE WIN TOGETHER
It tells of two friends, one disabled and his class mate,  united by a passion for basket and rap music.
Pressed cardboard with mixed techniques

YOU AND ME POP STARS
Two friends dream of a musical project to have fun together. One of them is a disabled boy and wants to represent his friend in his drawing.

QUANDO LA SOLITUDINE RESPINGE
“Quando la solitudine respinge” è il tema che ho voluto rappresentare attraverso il filo spinato, barriera che da sempre l’uomo innalza contro l’uomo.
L’uomo disabile chiude e si protegge dal nemico, da colui che non conosce, da chi è diverso, isolandosi e impedendo ...

DEDICATED TO ROMEO
Two school friends, one of them is disabled boy, portrayed by his friend. This artwork seems a photograph of the happy world of his friend.

ASINGLEPORTRAIT
A single wax crayon, which is being passed from hand to hand; a persistent and indelible mark on which everybody have played their part. A neverending mark, symbol of the bond which unites us all and in which we got involved, ready to take a challenge. The passing of the crayon, lik...

DISABILITY AND INCLUSION, LONLINESS AND SOLIDARITY
Sport includes everybody, because it unites and aggegates
video

DISABILITA’ E INCLUSIONE. SOLITUDINE E SOLIDARIETA'
 
A volte la disabilità getta nella solitudine chi la vive. Una condizione che ho associato al buio che può essere squarciato come un nero sipario dal gesto solidale di chi allunga una mano verso di noi. Così la nostra luce può ricavarsi un varco...

HAPPINESS IN COLOUR
Happiness in Color is a vdeo in wich two scenes are represented, The scene occurr simultaneously, The first boy  symbolized solitude and humilty, The girl on the chair symbolizes the difficulties that people experience, the second boy  symbolizes solidarity, The use of black and...

SHARING
In this graphic work I wanted to represent the relationship with the dog that has the same man disability. With this relationship we can also find a kind of solidarity between man and animal that turns into friendship and overcomes the loneliness of the individual's life. Its state at the s...

MY FRIEND… AS I SEE YOU
A disabled student and his classmate have created an artwork to know each other.

SOUL IN COLOUR
I represented the little man full of brightly colored machines that give the impression of confidence, unlike the wheelchair which is devoid of colors, interpreting it as the solitude that the disabled person experiences.
Technique: graphic design

DREAM OF FREEDOM
I made an electronic paper with a shadow that projects one's desire onto a wall. The shadow moves freely on a wall that instead would like to hinder dreams. The wall represents the people around who would like to protect the disabled but eventually it becomes an obstacle and create...

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
We must not close ourselves in a bubble of negativity and we must move forward. We get stuck especially when motivation is missing, the most essential thing in life.
Technique: acquaforte

DISABILITY AND INCLUSION. LONELINESS AND SOLIDARITY
 
For this graphic work I focused on the problem of loneliness and diversity but with a double interpretation.
I used as a metaphor to express myself as a penguin in the midst of so many others, I gave them all the same elegant clothes, but inst...

INDIVIDUAL PATHS
Social inclusion is achieved through the protection and preservation of the right to equality.With this approach, we can develop targeted strategies leading to the same goal: happiness.Both the linear or sinuous road paths start from the center of the painting and lead,following in...

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT

The cover depicts a hand about to burst the bubble in which it is locked with a needle. The bubble, which incorporates the colors of the rainbow of the association’s logo, represents the condition of isolation and solitude of the guys that can be defeated through d...

LOVE WINS OVER EVERYTHING
First photo: a blind and lonely girl. Black and white colours and the blind fold are the metaphor.
Second photo: you can get a glimpse of a hand, the symbol of the friend’s comfort. The girl is no longer alone. The blind fold is falling over.
Third photo: the colour is c...

HAPPYNESS IS A COLORFUL LIFE


The artwork that to expose shows a happy child on a weelchared to expose shows a happy
child on a weelchair. I colored the child with different pairings of colour, which were not
only watercolored, but also with more intentsity. The colours that i used on the chi...

OUT OF PLACE


The theme addressed is solitude, suffering and feeling out of place.

 
Technique: acquaforte.

DISABILITÀ, SOLIDARIETÀ, INCLUSIONE
        
    1) Sentirsi come una preziosa rosa chiusa in una campana di vetro, lontana da tutti, triste e sola per paura di non essere accettata per quello che è.
    2) Un prato solidale di girasoli e margherite che, grazie al suo sostegno, da coraggio alla...

THE RIGHT TO DREAM
The suggestion that this project  inspired me has developed through the theme of  fantasy as equal rights not only in the society but also in the opportuniti to dream.
Each item isn’t randomly located; all the illustration is structured on the idea of equality given by childhood...

ONE’S DREAMS
I used the phone to represent a technology common to all, the desktop background in which there are the colors of hope or different emotions between them, the wheelchair has been scaled down to represent the smallness of a disability, linked by a thread that manages to get rid of the d...

GABBIE DI MATTI 
La disabilità psichica è spesso quella più difficile da sostenere perché mina in profondità le relazioni umane. L’espressione “gabbia di matti” indica in modo figurato uno spazio dove l’irrazionalità prevale. I “matti” spesso sono tragicamente chiusi nella propria gabbia di solitud...

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT
The main color of the cover is the blue that transmits calm and tranquility, the background is sprinkled with clouds in different shapes and in more shades of blue with a huddled child who makes us understand their marginalization from society. For the Headline I cho...

OUR MUSIC, OUR SOUND
Two friends, who are “different” for the community, tell the harmony between them, which is like music with its different notes.

LA SOLITUDINE INTERIORE

La mano accoglie la figura femminile in segno di solidarietà, il braccio diventa un tronco d’albero simbolo della vita al quale la donna si aggrappa.
Tecnica: acquaforte.

UNDER THE TREE
The work was made with the soft wax technique, to reproduce a return to the past.
The scene is divided into two by a tree. On one side, a person is depicted alone, and the background is covered with clouds. Moreover, the side of the tree on which the silhouette rests, is bare, like ...

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT
In the visual part of the cover of the book I wanted to represent a child inside a black and white box, which is symbolically limited by his condition, but with his hands looking for contact with the outside The main color is blue, the color of autism, which is also ...

THE WARMTH OF AN EMBRACE


 
 
The hands that welcome and hold daffodils, a symbol of rebirth, represent the will to help people with disabilities dream and fight for a new beginning. No one is ever alone.

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT
The cover of the book was created for ValtiberinAutismo. On the cover I placed the image of a blue hummingbird, which embodies the child, his freedom and carefree, on a white background that makes everything stand out. The blue color recalls the calm, tranquility and...

BOOK COVER OF  “ELEANOR WORTHINGTON)

I wanted to make a book cover.
The drawing is of two people who embrace each other but we immediately notice a diversity, but what unites them is a red heart that is the fundamental center of the cover.
Despite the diversity between them, what unites them is...

FROM SHADOW TO LIGHT
The door describes an architectural and ideological barrier that has been broken. The projected figure and the slash on the sky represents the willpower to interact with the world through integration and removal of fears and prejudices.

Acrylic on cloth and Adobe Photoshop

BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE VIEWER
The beauty inside all the things we have around changes when we change our point of view. If we analyse the beauty of the sculpture with the acute eye of an aesthete we would notice that there are some iron strings that break the harmony of his body. But if we de...

UNA MAREA DI MANI, UNA MANO A MARE
Il mare è il luogo dove una persona può affondare, sott’acqua se si parla non ci si sente, quindi l’acqua può isolare anche se non si è da soli. L’aiuto può arrivare, e tenerci a galla facendoci uscire dall’isolamento.

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT
For this project, I used blue for the background, a symbol of calm and tranquility, I added graphic elements such as the cloud. On the back of the cover I added the school and association logo, the font I used for the cover it is inherent with the drawing I made.

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MOMENTS WHICH SAVE
A sense of loneliness that consumes you from the inside. None understands you. It is like if the world no longer had colours. But there are people who are there for you and thanks to them the world stops being black and white. In my art project I depicted loneliness and solidari...

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT
The design of the book cover for the association "Valtiberina Autismo" is aimed at children affected by this disorder. The title is "Talk to me, tell me". The project is an effective job. transmits harmony.The cover is a sky of clouds; there is a harmony between sky ...

D I S - A B I L I T Y
In this project I wanted to deal with the topic of people with a written: DIS-ABILITY.
In this word I valued “skill” with the red color while the prefix “dis” is blank to give it little importance, where it is more important the ability of these people that certainly things s...

THE OBSTACLES OF THE MIND
Life cannot be faced and perceived as a difficult path similar to a tangle of stairs. Disabilities cannot exclude from society that, in turn, must not oppose obstacles.

Acrylic on canvass and Adobe Photoshop.

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
The wealth of differences must be nurtured through the adaption of known things, environments and practices, according to each specific singularity.
The hand with the keyhole opens on new horizons of an illuminated landscape that symbolizes the way out from shadow and fear.

A...

BALLO DA SOLA 
Nella mia opera ispirata a un dipinto di Felice Casorati ho inserito una riproduzione della danza di Matisse che con il senso di armonia e il calore dei colori si pone come modello di felicità e solidarietà per chi è chiusa nell’abbraccio freddo della propria solitudine

THE ADVANTAGE
L’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi, a volte uno sguardo è più espressivo di mille parole.
Tecnica: acquaforte.

I’LL GIVE YOU HAPPINESS
A disabled girl gives a portrait to her friend surrounded by many happy and colourful  little men.

DISABILITÀ E INCLUSIONE. SOLITUDINE E SOLIDARIETÀ
Danzare implica esprimersi senza l’uso della parola e può essere un modo efficace per porre fine alla solitudine. Bisognerebbe saper colmare le giornate vuote con una danza che sia in grado di coinvolgere ed emozionare e che colori il mondo intorno ...

PERFECTION IN IMPERFECTION
In my drawing I chose to represent a woman while closes in herself because she feels sad with her body and her disability, due to the fact that she hasn’t her right hand.The message that I give is even if she is not perfect because of her right hand, she is anyway beautif...

DISABILITY IS NOT AN OBSTACLE
The painting:
the wheelchair in the dark background represents  solitude,
the brightening  body represents the solidarity  and the  inner strenght of human being which helps the exterior part to face  problems, using the art of light paintig.
Photo

TOGETHER IN THE SAME SQUARE

The project has been designed to give a message of integration towards disabilities.
The writing “TOGETHER IN THE SAME SQUARE” is a slogan to explain the meaning of the work.
The square has a lot of different lines in it that are randomly thicker then the others.
Th...

MY SPORT STAR
Liking and love between two classmates. One of them is a disabled girl. She sees her friend in a special way, and has portrayed him so that her friend becomes a sport star. Her painting is like Andy Warhol’s artwork.
Acrylic on canvass

FREEDOM
I have tried to represent the difficulties every child may face in his life time. The environment, too often, negatively affects the inclusion of disables in everyday life.

Acriyic on canvass and  Adobe Photoshop.

INTERNAL DISCONFORT
Moving the steps of research inside the relationship between figure and environment and between discomfort and disability, we have gradually come to the image of a human figure that incorporates embodies, like a vital organ, a landscape reduced to the minimum, able to evoke an i...

A SUMMER DAY
A poem for a deaf-mute friend whom I met when I was still young.
The school and the game are strong solidarity tools to remove the disabled from loneliness.


Collage on paper, cm 100 x 70

I AM WITH YOU
It is the story of a class and a disabled student. This student has been welcomed with love by his friends, and he has represented himself with the sentences that they have dedicated to him.

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT
The cover was made with light blue background that symbolizes peace and calm, with a child running over it, giving a sense of lightness and freedom. For the headline, I chose an elegant font that blends well with the visual, highlighting a sense of delicacy. 

Digi...

ALL FOR ONE
Life can be pink, but also grey, white or even black. What the eye perceives is a set of colours that, concurrently, contribute to the vision of the represented landscape. All colours, like all men, contribute to the achievement of harmony and balance.

Acrylic on canvass and Adobe P...

I AM HERE, TOO
It is the story of the children excluded from the community, and from their peers’ games.

DISABILITY AND INCLUSION. LONELINESS AND SOLIDARITY
In this work I represented a man's hand and a woman's hand, on the palm of their hands there is a little man in a wheelchair who represents the disabled person. The human hand is ajar to give a sense of closure and represents the people who tend t...

DISABILITY
It is a book. Cover, front an back cover.
On the front of the cover is represented a rainy day;
on the right there is a girl sitting on a wheelchair and she is holding an umbrella: she represents the DISABILITY.
On the left a man is sitting on a sidewalk, alone: SOLITUDE, LONELINESS.
...

DISABILITY AND  INCLUSION.  LONELINESS AND SOLIDARITY
For the 11th edition of the Eleanor Worthington Prize we decided to
present a photograph.
The subjects immortalized are two dancers, and one of them has motor disability. The purpose of this work is to break
down the real barriers, mental o...

EMPATHIC VIBE
Disability can cause fear of not being accepted into society.
In my project, I wanted to eradicate this idea, showing empathy among people through art, time and space.
Artists such as Luigi Ghirri, Elliott Erwitt and Thomas Struth, have experimented with photography in museums, depi...

INTERTWINING  OF BODIES
It depicts the loneliness and lack in general that may be the lack of affection rappresented by the squatting girl or absence of something concrete as ca be disability in all its forms, rappresented by the limbs.
Technique:  acquaforte

HOPE
I wanted to represent the butterfly because the butterflies have the particularity of being able to fly even with 70% of the ruined wings. Like the butterfly that does not given up and as the strength to fly same, so people with disabilities can still manage to “fly” by not arranging, not losi...

TALK TO ME AND TELL ME ABOUT IT
The main colors of the cover are the Blue: color of autism, it creates a sense of tranquility and serenity. The figure that speaks at the corner (taken from the title) has a red color, in contrast with the blue of the background.
The title "Talk to me and tell me ab...

DISABILITÀ E INCLUSIONE. SOLITUDINE E SOLIDARIETÀ
La solitudine simbolicamente è come una montagna da scalare. E’ un’impresa che per chi ha il peso aggiuntivo dell’handicap può risultare molto difficile se non si trova qualcuno con cui fare cordata e con cui dividerne la fatica.

GLOOM
Represented a melancholy young woman because of her disability.The lack of the heart symbolizes the apathy that brings loneliness.
Technique: acquaforte

DISABILITY AND  INCLUSION
The graphic work was born from the shape of the wheelchair for disabled people, it wants to represent through repetition, stylized forms of person that evokes yhe thought of equality. I used the three primary colors to express the concept of solidarity, with the complement...

DISABILITÀ E INCLUSIONE. SOLITUDINE E SOLIDARIETÀ
La solitudine crea una frattura nell’anima di chi la vive e una distanza dalle altre persone che solo la solidarietà può eliminare.
Partendo dalle suggestioni dei cretti di Alberto Burri ho voluto ricreare delle fratture che rappresentassero la sol...

LONELY SPARROW
My work represents a sad sparrow that cries only in the rain. This idea is very sad but it immediately reaches the observer.
Technique: acquaforte

DISABILITY AND INCLUSION
Rappresentation of a girl in a wheelchair who has de desire to live perfectly integrated and to receve hepl from the peolpe around her not minding the prejudices and the limitations of this society

Technique: acquaforte

THE COLOUR OF THE LAWN
The artwork underlines the importance of being “different”, because it emphasizes the social context, like the colour of this brush-stroke on the petals of a grey daisy, and only on one of them ...
watercolour on paper

KINTUGI JAR- DISABILITY
I was inspired by the japanese technique of kintsugi for the realization of this artwork.
Kintsugi it’s a way to repair broken jar by using melted gold: it is applied on the cracks of the object to make it more resistant ,specially in the weaker part (the same part of the ...

DISABILITY AND INCLUSION. LONELINESS AND SOLIDARITY
This drawing represents a tearful eye.
This tear when it comes down turns into a heart.
This represents in a way that Eleanor Worthington communicated: with her eyes.
The tear that changes is to represent the loneliness that turns into love ove...

PRICELESS
Priceless is my mother, who used to sit on that wheelchair.
Now she's no longer physically present, and her lack fills me with loneliness.
But the love and solidarity that have united us are in my heart, forever.
Although her body left me, all the love given and receive remains: pricel...

LA SOLIDARIETÀ DEL COLORE
 
L’importante è non essere un mondo a parte ma essere parte di un mondo, i colori pur essendo diversi creano un’armonia cromatica.
Tecnica: monotipo

WE LEARN FROM WHALES

Thinking about the announcement of the competition Eleanor Worthington that asks us to perform any elaborate with theme disability and inclusion, loneliness and solidarity. I have created a graphic work where I started from the idea of diversity that there is in the world.
I...

BETTER  TO HAVE FRIENDS
"Better to have friends" and "alone is sad" are the phrases spoken by Lucio after a reflection on solidarity and solitude. These, with his self-portrait, constitute the basic grammatical elements of the graphic composition where, in black and white, the red of some letters o...

DO NOT LEAVE HIM ALONE
Love wins solitude

Pencil on paper