I paint to slow down time. In a world that moves too quickly, I am drawn to the quiet, fragile moments that might otherwise dissolve unnoticed, the way light rests on stone, the stillness of a person lost in thought, a bird pausing on an ancient fragment before it inevitably takes flight. These scenes anchor me, offering a way to understand the emotional undercurrents of daily life and to hold on to what feels fleeting.
Photography has always been the foundation of how I observe the world. Since my high school years, when I first fell in love with the medium through Sally Mann’s work, I have used the camera as a visual diary, collecting fragments of life, gestures of stillness, and transient atmospheres. Over time, these images have become the starting point for my paintings: I transform and reinterpret them, allowing memory, emotion, and intuition to reshape their original documentary nature.
My practice grew out of years spent moving between cities, studios, and design work, experiences that taught me how people inhabit space, and how spaces in return shape our inner lives. Living and traveling in Italy left a lasting imprint: the Mediterranean light, the warm colors, and the calm rhythm of daily life continue to find their way into my palette. For me, these tones express both harmony and the fragile, fleeting beauty of the ordinary.
Through painting, I search for a balance between softness and structure, melancholy and stillness, intimacy and distance. I explore themes of transience, memory, femininity, and the emotional traces humans leave behind in their environments. Each painting becomes a quiet narrative, shaped by the facades I have collected, the shadows I have photographed, and the people I have observed, moments suspended between reality and timelessness.
My influences range from Edvard Munch’s emotional depth to Giorgio de Chirico’s dreamlike atmospheres, from Edward Hopper’s stillness to the cinematic sensitivity of Paolo Sorrentino. These voices guide me as I transform fleeting impressions into images that reach toward something enduring, an attempt to hold time still, if only for a moment.
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