I am Toni Demuro, I am an illustrator, I live and work in Sardinia.
In my illustrations I often represent the relationship between nature and people, a complicated but inseparable bond because human beings in the last millennia have betrayed nature, they have forgotten to be part of it, they have forgotten that protecting nature means protecting one’s existence. Many people have lost the integrity of their spirit and would like to administer nature without any conscience. They are wrong, and this is what I try to represent in my illustrations, a nature that takes its course in front of a small, fragile and lonely human being. There are several elements that help me to express these concepts:
trees, because they have a strong symbolism, to which we are all linked, make life on earth possible, how can we be indifferent to it?
Bird-men, who represent the future of humanity, their ambition to have more than what nature has given them, to be able to fly, has made them similar to birds in appearance, but unable to fly.
The desert, which is an introspective journey, does not want to convey anything, it concerns our person, intimacy, emotions.
The desert inhabits our soul and however we walk we cannot get away from ourselves.
