MAKING THINGS. THINGS IN THE MAKING.
Beginnings.
Describing art, especially one’s own, is a quite a challenge. Where do I start? Being creative has always been part of my life, it is my professional profile after all, I am a graphic designer, an art director, a creative director. I make a lot of things, I create identities, I give shape and form to ideas, services, products. My mind has always been alert, attentive, sensitive to everything, in constant search for inspiration and affirmation. The evolution of my work from the commercial to pieces that I describe as art, has been an extensive process that began long ago. Circumstances afforded me the opportunity to dedicate myself to a different kind of creative practice. What I am doing now is opening up and sharing the fruition of that practice through testing and experimenting with ideas, tools and materials. It’s both a mental and a physical process. I feel compelled to do this. I need to share something that matters to me with the wish and hope that my work will create meaning and value for someone other than myself.
Painting With Images
Imaginative Commentaries.
What is it about?
The images and ideas come from various sources. They allude to a past, a present, and to a future simultaneously. The rigidity of the layout helps me to create a visual narrative, condensing and expanding it at the same time; rich and luscious in the depiction of the small details, like leaves, buds, flowers. Through countless uncurated instant images I capture the vibrancy of their colors, their intricate forms and patterns. What is it about? Maybe it’s an attempt to highlight the remarkable continuity of fleeting experience, the impossible tension as we strive to hold on, the realization that it is simply not possible to hold on to anything. We are beholding, imagining, inventing and reinventing, fantasizing, interpreting and reinterpreting things, in a continuous cycle in which we are both protagonists and witnesses.
A Path to Explore
At the moment all the work displayed lives in digital format. The compositions are set up to be print ready upon request. I have produced a few as giclee prints on fine art paper. One of them, Stories Left Undone S Series 4 N1 21, hungs on my foyer wall, a gift to the home I share with my partner and from where I currently work. My occupation is now to investigate and experiment with my subject matter further, to find ways to produce the pieces, create more, approach painting with colors, build a studio practice. I found a place to begin and a place from which to move.
