Seeing your work through someone else’s eyes is always… something. At best, it’s humbling. At worst, it’s awkward. But when Sonia Borrell writes about you? It’s magic.
Sonia—author of Art In Real Time (you’ve heard of it, right?)—just wrote an article about me for Disruptors magazine. It’s called “Fulvio Gonella: Where Human Essence Finds Form.” Sounds grand, doesn’t it? But she gets it. She really does.
The piece is based on a lot of conversations we’ve had. About art. About life. About why I do what I do. It’s not just a quick overview. It’s thoughtful. Insightful. Personal. Sonia dives into the ideas that drive my work—how I try to capture the messy, imperfect, very human side of things.
She talks about the balance in my work. Clarity and ambiguity. Simplicity and complexity. That constant push and pull. She even touches on imperfection—something I’ve always loved. Perfection can feel cold. Distant. But imperfection? That’s where the story lives.
Reading it felt strange. In a good way. Sonia put things into words I didn’t even know I was trying to say. It’s like she took all the thoughts swirling in my head and gave them structure. (This is why she’s the writer, not me.)
The article is about me—my work, my process, my why. But through Sonia’s words, it also feels bigger. Like she’s mapped out the threads that connect what I create to the people who experience it.
If you want to read it—and trust me, you should—you can find it here. Take a look. Let me know what you think.
Because at the end of the day, that’s what this is all about. The work. The connection. And the conversation that follows.