Who is the Particle Bard?
It’s a codename for the poet Lucretius, an author Sandro read in his formative years, and re-discovered anew while working on his most recent series of drawings. In his De rerum natura, Lucretius tells us that everything in the universe is the result of random and provisional combinations of atoms. This is an uncanny notion, considering that he wrote ca. 50 BC, expounding an idea first conceived four centuries earlier by Democritus and, later, Epicurus. If art manifestos were still in vogue, this series of drawings could signal the emergence of a movement called, in the bard’s honor, Visual Atomism.
