"Even though times are not easy, being a goldsmith is now my path. A tiring and sometimes painful path, but still exciting. A path opened and traveled over time in Venice by goldsmiths who had refined hands and visionary minds, of whose secrets and skills I dare to think I am an heir to, at least in part. They are the giants on whose shoulders, in my own small way, I ideally sit when I am at work at my bench."