The aim of my work is to highlight a way of understanding art as a search for the unknown within ourselves, specifically, for what we hold in the depths of our unconscious.
Strong color contrasts and internal tension in the stroke, devoid of representation, serve as tools to connect with what resonates internally from a state of meditation, concentration, and relaxation.
The works are a plastic and sensitive encounter, through painting and sculpture, with central internal processes that unfold in our psyche and are usually unknown to us.
They aim to help us understand complex internal states and to feel connected, one with another, from the universality of the human experience.
HOW THIS RESEARCH WAS BORN, HOW WE ARRIVED AT THIS PLACE
My research work begins with the conscious observation of a form of plastic expression that I have always felt to be very *sui generis*. From the beginning, I sought to deepen my understanding of it, but I couldn't always articulate it with the clarity I have now.
I have been meditating regularly for years, and as a result of this practice, I discovered that I connected with my unconscious in a very visual way: when I meditate, I often see many images —it's very common among meditators— and also during liminal moments (when falling asleep or just waking up), because in all these moments our rational brain "lets down its guard"/relaxes, and the information we receive is unconscious information.
In this process of conscious observation of my artistic practice, I explored the way I felt color, or how strokes and other elements behaved, as I will discuss later. Everything changed, however, one day when, attentive to all these sensations, upon leaving the studio, I realized that I had felt exactly the same as when I had been meditating.
I delved into the work of Carl Jung, the psychoanalyst who studied images of the collective unconscious, and there I found the key that allowed me to deeply understand my artistic practice and what it was about: it was, in its entirety, unconscious production and spoke of processes of human psychic development that Jung had defined in his study.