![]() In the Forest of Memory
oil on canvas / 63x79in - 160x200cm/ 2015
Entering the woods you access the images stored in my mind. My mother passed away but I sense her presence. She walks behind my back. I can’t see her face so I paint it as I remember it. I paint her to stop her from vanishing all together. The moments captured on canvas are familiar to me thanks to the photographs. To recall them I have to recreate them from scratch. I make people and places immortal. They are staged in their moments of life. I make my presence by looking at them. I reincarnate the past with the pain of loss. To escape the reality I walk into the woods. I enter my world of memorized details. I paint to recall what I have come to know. Doing so I am an observer of a human evanescence. I dedicate my work to those who I have loved the most. I am searching for them all over again in the woods of my remembrance. All what happened imprints the present. I document that. There is no beginning and there is no end. Imagine wandering in the woods. Now, you behold my childhood as I know it only. Do you see that little girl? Can you see your own forest of memory? ![]() Just a boy
oil on canvas / 43x51in - 110x130cm / 2015
![]() My first candle
oil on canvas / 31x31in - 80x80cm / 2016
![]() Sacra Conversazione
oil on canvas / 59x62in - 150x160cm / 2014
![]() Annunciation
oil on canvas / 59x62in - 150x160cm / 2015
![]() Madonna dell'uovo
oil on canvas / 59x79in - 150x200cm / 2016
![]() Carless
oil on canvas / 70x78in - 180x200cm / 2016
![]() The Brotherhood
oil on canvas / 39x51in - 100x130cm / 2016
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