Let me introduce myself in the first person,

I am Plexus 23s , aka Dr.  Sandro Dernini 

 I have a double identity, I am a Plexus artist, as well as, I am a scientist

I am a compressionist artist, Plexus 23s co-founder of Plexus International

As a scientist, in 1974, I got my university degree (laurea) in Biological Science, at the University of Cagliari (Sardinia), and in 1997, I got my Ph.D. in Art Education, at the New York University.  

Since early 90’s, I started to foster an enduring transdisciplinary dialogue among international scholars from different fields,  connecting the well-being to the Mediterranean diet, sustainable diets and food sustainability. I published many peer reviewed  scientific articles, books, and organized many international conferences and projects with United Nations and Intergovermental Organizations, including three World Conferences on the Revitalization of the Mediterranean Diets, in 2016 in Milan, in 2019 in Palermo, and in 2022 in Bari. 

 I have also a double cultural identity: I am “Sardo” (from Sardinian) and Italian. My nationality is Italian but my culture is "Nuragic", the bronze age civilization of Sardinia.

1986 Plexus Art Opera n.3 "Eve, Escaping from Anno Domini on board  of an Art Slaves Ship" at C.U.AN.D.O. Comunity Civic Centre, Lower East Side, NYC

I discovered my Nuragic identity, in August 1984, in a burned building, at 523 East 6th Street, in the Lower East Side,  where I was living, when prof. Raimondo De Muro, an old Sardinian friend of my family,  knocked to my door, in the second floor with ruined stairs to go up to ask. He told me about the ancient oral tales of the Nuragic people of Sardinia, that did not known. He asked me to support him to find in New York a publisher for his book  "I Racconti della Nuraghelogia". I was totally fascinated by his speaking on my forgotten Nuragic Sardinian heritage. Then, I introduced him to Stephen DiLauro, a playwriter living next door, and frequent at the Shuttle Theatre in my basement building.  I knew that Stephen was very attracted by Robert Graves' White Goddess and by mysteries of the ancient world.

Stephen liked it and, alias E. Kishmet, he wrote  "The Towers of Power", as introduction to De Muro's short book version in English, in which he

Stephen liked it and wrote an introduction  to the English De Muro's book synopsis, entitled “The Towers of Power”,  about synchronicity, UFOs,  and “cosmic net”, questioning if thousand stone towers of varying heights exit, as the remains of a bigger ancient network  could be the center of an interplanetary communication network of a universal memory.

1987 Plexus Art Co-Opera n.4 "Il Serpente di Pietra, The First World Art Slaves Market Show", Gavoi, Sardinia