Alphabet

From the series “Alphabet”, china ink on paper. 20 x 20 cm, 2001.

A barcode is the graphical representation of a series of numbers. What does creates the aesthetics of a bar code? It comes from lines, their thickness, the spacing.We can think of it as a language with its compositional rules, its grammar and its syntax.

I imagined to isolate these rules, separating them from the original purpose for which they were created, and I tried to change them gradually to invent a new language and perhaps new meanings.

Something in the snow

Something in the snow

Oil on canvas, 2014, 80 X 70 cm.

“I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,

On a white heal-all, holding up a moth

Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth -

Assorted characters of death and blight

Mixed ready to begin the morning right,

Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth -

A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,

And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,

The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?

What brought the kindred spider to that height,

Then steered the white moth thither in the night?

What but design of darkness to appall? - -

If design govern in a thing so small.”

Design, by Robert Frost. 1922.

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Erminia and Ida in the fields

"Erminia and Ida in the fields". Oil on cardboard, 85 x 56 cm, 2016. Original and prints available for sale:

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