"Shifting Timelines" Painting

The portraits I create do not correspond to the common notion of a portrait, in which a face is painted - more or less similar to reality. Rather, what these abstract portraits represent is a mirror of the soul – colors, shapes and symbols in which the viewer recognises themselves, thereby initiating the process of restoring energetic balance.
The artistic process begins by applying a black background, which allows me to enter the subtle, energetic realm of the subject to be portrayed. The same creation of this background alone requires different movements and brushstrokes for each individual, serving as a prelude to what will take shape later on.
Every color and every shape that is subsequently created is a material expression of an energetic movement within the individual, which seeks to emerge so that it may be seen and recognised.
Contrary to all preconceptions, the black background makes the colors stand out, as if they were eager to take their rightful place and finally reveal themselves to the light. Black, therefore, is not a negative element or something to be feared, but an integral part of our universe: Light and Shadow merge and are indivisible parts of a perfect Tao, enhancing one another.
Collage becomes part of these portraits as if to lend further substance to the process that seeks to move from the ethereal to a more concrete state, aimed at providing a further key to integrating these two dimensions of our human experience.
In these works archaic symbolism and distant knowledge emerge, not without a sense of wonder, where – I realise – we are all mirrors of one another. In presenting a portrait of another person, I always recognise a small part of myself that connects me to those who pass by and pause for a moment in this endless journey.
Recently, the dimension of words has also entered my practice. As for the pictorial aspect, these words are not direct or imperative, but they float and carry messages that seek to settle in the unconscious, asking space and time to be absorbed.

In addition to personal portraits, I create works of openness and rebalancing that convey a message linked to the shared energy of a place or a community.