Il Ciliegio Magico/The Magical Cherry Tree
Every tree holds a story, some hold memories and beliefs: Marcel Proust’s narrator fell into a ‘remembrance of things past’ after dropping his madeleine in the tea made from the flowers of a linden tree…each growth lawyer of il Ciliegio Magico contains a bit of the air from the land where I grew up: la […]
La 24 Ore: Court of Memory
La 24 Ore (literally “24 Hours”) is a leather briefcase designed to hold only a day’s essentials. It embodies the process of memory itself, its limitations and demands for selection and compression: a house must become a small, portable case; years passed within its walls must become only moments of inward reflection, representing stages in a journey […]
Luce
Luce is a series of 12 oil paintings on Belgian linen housed in a leather case, inspired by 7th century Coptic binding. The paintings correspond to the 12 divine Rays of Light, each one having attributes of color, vibration, and other significant qualities; which, when taken together make up the fabric of our entire Universe. The […]
Frammenti
August 17th, 2015 “Fragmentation as infinite energy of possibility: a fragment will mirror our desire for unity; its nature, both proposing and denying wholeness, can never be fully grasped or exhausted”. During my stay in a secluded cottage in Cornwall, I’d go out in the isolated landscape and paint fragments of the night. Once back in the […]
Chi
Chy – Chi m (plural treven or chiow), noun house. Etymology from Proto-Brythonic *tɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.Pronunciation [tʃiː], [tʃəi] August 2015, Cape Cornwall U.K. “The process of enveloping an abandoned Cornish house nestled under a cliff beside the sea, used once by local miners, allowed me to reflect upon the perpetual principles of transformation and […]
Roots
I have been painting and drawing roots that take life in a magical way and become fantastical creatures, full of humanity. They look vulnerable and strong and beautiful, with a wounded element that makes them unique. They are strange creatures that talk to my heart. They are not loud, they look at me quietly in […]