Queering the Rosary: Saint Chiara Drawing

My existential and artistic adventure is lead by an insatiable passion for what the theologian Rudolph Otto calls the experience of the numinous or the numinous experience beyond, above and below specific confessions. The experience of encountering what is intangible and yet constantly present in our life; that sense of truth that Jaques Derrida felt as hovering in things, but never exhausted by them. Anything I do and produce artistically is a glimpse of that, a flickering of that impossible presence; an adventure haunted by failure. My drawing method is inspired and informed by my meditative and chanting Buddhist practices and by my endless journeys into what Michael Harner would call the lower world of the shamanic cosmology. All the drawings shown here are stepping stones of this search. To conclude, I consider my artistic work almost as a spiritual practice, the outcomes of which always emerge organically from daily dedication and disciplined engagement.