A CONTINENT IN THE BEDROOM Painting

I begin by thinking of Proust and the first chapter of Swann's Way, the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, in which the narrator describes his bedroom and the profusion of thoughts that occupied his mind in this complex territory where dream and wakefulness meet. . In such a space can fit a continent, fit a universe. The bedroom invites you to digress, to remember, to sweetness and anguish. In the bedroom, in those moments when lethargy gradually dominates consciousness, the artist's creative mind seeks paths and solutions for his work. Many times it was exactly at this moment that he managed to solve some works that he had been struggling with for days in the studio. Leonardo was right, painting is a cosa mentale, which, at times, is defined far away from the studio, when the artist rests his head on the pillow and cannot stop thinking about the work that occupied his hours during the day. The bedroom fits all the work of an artist, the work already done, the work in process and the work to come.