MIDDAY REST IN SICILY Painting

BIOGRAPHY I am a self-taught painter. My passion for drawing emerged in childhood, and I began working with oil paints at the age of 18. The starting point of my artistic journey lies in the introspective experiences of adolescence. Through painting, I sought to give voice to the chaotic turmoil of that time—full of raw intuitions and contradictions. Over time, painting became a space for the subconscious to manifest, carrying with it all the folly and intensity that usually remain hidden within us. Between 1998 and 2002, I lived in El Salvador—an experience that deeply influenced the evolution of my artistic path. Green became the mark of that period, just as blue had characterized the introspective world of my adolescence. --- ARTIST STATEMENT Art is a path toward Truth. As such, the artist must be fundamentally concerned with Beauty—for Beauty is how Truth reveals itself. And yes, Beauty DOES have objective standards. Artists do not create Art. Art exists in the perfection of Nature. Art is Beauty: the hidden matrix from which all true beauty arises. In its presence, we are not creators but witnesses—overwhelmed, astonished, pierced. The artist's rare gift is not in control, but in surrender: the ability to descend into folly and roam freely within it. It is only in that realm—irrational, subconscious, raw—that one can draw, without fully understanding, from the source of Beauty itself. What we call “art” is the luminous, original language through which the artist translates their personal sense of Beauty—a fragile but essential act of communion with something greater than themselves. “Our language interposes itself between learning and the truth like a dusty glass, a deforming mirror. The language of Eden was a clear window, through which the light of full comprehension flowed.” George Steiner, "After Babel" “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” John Keats