ABSTRACT
LZ: (laughs) No that happened too but – no, a conventional education in an Italian sense is Italian comprehensive school which is pretty much the norm for us – because there isn’t the division between public and private education in Italy as there is here. So after my basic primary and secondary school up to age fourteen, I chose to go tan ‘alternative’ state funded high school, a mad place that was the result of a 1970s experiment
of alternative education: full-time studying, unconventional teaching methods and the opportunity to explore – learn – subjects connected to the visual arts like photography, film and graphic design, all backed up by more classical studies. I guess it was all part of that exploration that had been ongoing from the age of seven when I used to think I would be a painter, or when I was ten and was writing little plays and performing in them as well, or when I was thirteen and composed little piano pieces . . . I didn’t know what I wanted to do – I was just trying everything out.
