The idea for Pearls, Tears Of The Sea came to me on the seashore at Camogli after a night during which the waves roared in and a wild storm raged. Next morning I went for a walk along the churned-up beach and was amazed.
So much had been washed up on the beach, wood, seaweed, sea urchins, all kinds of flotsam. I took off the pearl I was wearing round my neck and laid it among all these mysterious treasures that had been revealed by the sea. It seemed as if it had always belonged there. Queen of the spume. The project was born.

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