In the studio you will be able to view the original watercolors by @mydaysandyours, the Spirits from the previous edition of @arteindifesa, and the Little People of RAW 2025, along with numerous original paintings and drawings, while enjoying a glass of wine in good company.

Arte indifesa (defensless art) -  2025

I don’t want a wall to be defaced.
 I no longer want to decorate absence.

Arte indifesa – Concept

Arteindifesa is a widespread artistic intervention, dedicated each year to a different Roman neighborhood.
The idea is to entrust, indirectly, the public with the welcoming, care, and preservation of completely undefended paintings, created with the technique and materials suited to being harmless, resistant, essential, and above all removable.

The first edition, “26 Spirits cross the Bridges”, was entirely dedicated to the Laurentino 38, Fonte Ostiense neighborhood, during Rome Art Week 2024, from Monday, October 21 to Saturday, October 26, 2024.

The second edition, “Piccolo Popolo”, will unfold across several neighborhoods of Rome—places where I have lived, worked, and loved. From Monday, October 21 to Saturday, October 26, 2025, the little people of my walker-gatherers will challenge, for one week, yet another bottleneck of the street.

Piccolo Popolo (Little People) – Introduction

Come, my friends,
’T is not too late to seek a newer world

Alfred Tennyson – Ulysses

Since the dawn of time, humanity has been on the move.
The first footprints of one of our ancestors, left in volcanic ash, date back 3.75 million years; there were three of them, fleeing from an erupting volcano. It took many years to stop running and begin walking: nearly two million years ago, walker-gatherers set out on their long journey from Africa to explore the rest of the planet. Homo sapiens was born much later, around 200,000 years ago. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they colonized the known world.
To endure, humanity had to cross immense natural dangers, to which it became increasingly resistant. Today Homo sapiens dominates the planet: what once threatened human life is no longer a daily problem.

What is at risk today, instead, are precisely the qualities that allowed us to separate ourselves from nature, to transform it and adapt it for survival. The world we have built increasingly resembles that primordial one where the logic of domination asserts itself again at all costs—at the expense of the very environment we live in, and of all life that inhabits it. It is a glaciation of human affections we must fear. Precisely because I believe human life is not bound to an evolutionary bottleneck, but is shaped by our choices, we must defend and affirm at every moment the humanity of affections, of research, of art, of imagination.

I like to think that the ancient walk toward knowledge still lives in each of us.
Piccolo Popolo is dedicated to this journey of ours, to the discovery of every invisible imagined world.




Little People – @arteindifesa – #arteindifesa

These are original paintings on 17x25 cm kraft paper, attached to walls and removable, scattered across different places in Rome. Each one represents the indomitable spirit of that walker-gatherer who still lives, even today, within many of us.

The paintings are free from the author as well (they are unsigned).


The care of the passage of these walkers is entirely entrusted to the inhabitants of the neighborhood.


Each painting is equipped with a QR code linking the visitor to a brief descriptive text.


Each painting, once placed in the city, is photographed, geolocated (#arteindifesa-map), and published on www.nuvolavaga.com/arteindifesa and www.instagram.com/arteindifesa.

We are the Little People. Small, but not few. Undefended, we continue the ancient journey of humanity—step by step, imagination after imagination.