These prints represent a fusion between pictorial, graphic and photographic art: they are photographic self-portraits connected to the images of my paintings and pictorial details, which create analogies between the external and internal world, between dreamlike visions and lived reality.
This fusion between painting, drawing and photography simultaneously represents multiple perceptive and temporal dimensions: the external shell and what lies beyond, the internal and dreamlike world superimposed on the photographic images of the face, the body, the hands which amplify the expression , associated with pictorial details that evoke the infinite world of the unconscious.
It wants to be a mirror that looks inside, that looks at the past and the present as a work of the moment, a frame that allows us to perceive an awareness of what happens inside and is transmitted outside, a bridge between multiple temporal and emotional dimensions… between lived life and imagined, between image and imagination.

They are the result of my life journey and created in a period (that of lockdown) of deprivation, separation, lack of space, of contact… a psychological situation that is reflected in these works, seizing the moment to navigate within one’s self, to explore what happens inside and express the internal struggle to survive one’s demons, doubts, internal traps, fears.

All this is depicted through images that symbolically evoke every state of mind, told in the most intimate and hidden sphere… reflecting a need, not only to want to look beyond but to reveal its mystery, transform internal wounds by elaborating images and visions, drawing also to the dream world… which amplifies its emotional impact.

The images tell of a sort of metamorphosis that occurs internally through my personal emotional journey… each image is a crescendo of an internal struggle that finally wants to break down the walls of the unknown, that wants to eradicate one’s own internal conditioning, one’s own difficulties, the self-sabotage, the waste, the violence, the wounds that everyone carries, in order to begin a process of liberation… and from here, my metamorphosis began. The soul returns to being whole, complete… it had lost pieces of itself along the way… now it is aware of having had the strength to face, fought to find itself and reemerge from the ashes, reflecting its true self, finally free.

The “water” element, in photographic self-portraits, symbolically reflects this metamorphosis: the desire to enter the waters of the unconscious, navigate them, explore them deeply and cleanse ourselves to rediscover contact with the source, the completeness of our being.
The first process was to analyze dreams and translate them into images through symbolism. I then subsequently chose some more representative images to be able to associate them with the photographic images I took. The self-portraits were taken inside a shower cubicle to be able to use more elements that could express the sense of constriction, of awareness, of contact with one’s own intimacy and at the same time of purification (through water).
I then intervened manually on each print with pencils and chalk, to enhance details and give each one a unique value.