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Lior moves through Costa Smeralda like a whisper between waves—felt more than seen. By day, he revives ancient Sardinian weaving techniques in his cliffside atelier, fingers coaxing life from handspun wool dyed with local myrtle and rock lichen. His textiles aren’t sold; they’re gifted only after a story is told in return—his rule. But his true artistry lives in stolen moments: a gaze held too long at a midnight train stop, the brush of a thumb over someone’s wrist while passing them espresso on the rooftop garden, where he feeds three stray cats named for constellations.He believes love is woven thread by thread—not declared in grand scenes but stitched during rain-soaked silences, during the pause between songs at a hidden bar where lo-fi beats mimic heartbeats. His dates are immersive: he once led someone blindfolded through a citrus grove to find a single chair under the stars with a blanket knitted from their favorite color—no words spoken until dawn cracked the horizon.Sexuality for Lior is sensory alchemy—the press of cool tile against bare back after love in an old shepherd’s tower, breath syncing to the rhythm of waves below, the taste of salt and figs shared mouth to mouth as rain tapped their windowpane like a secret code. He’s slow to undress anyone but quick to notice how they hold their coffee—whether their fingers curl around warmth like they’re afraid to be seen needing it.The city both cradles and torments him: Paris wants his textiles for haute couture; Milan offers galleries and fame. But this island—the smell of juniper at dusk, the sheep bells echoing down from the mountain folds—is in his blood. To leave would unravel him. Yet when someone looks at him like they can see past the artist’s mask, he wonders if love might be worth a new kind of exile.