My art is born from the need to give a voice to retained memories and moments in life. It began vaguely with the concept of glimpses, in which I gave a space in present time to those lost cherished images once seen and lived. Just a flying ghost of things that were, or things that might have been in the past, which are strong enough to stay present, preserved in our mind, reviving only during our daydreaming or even in our nightmares.
The concept of Time is an essential element within the contents of my work, it is all about memories: a long lost past, lost sadness, lost loves, lost faces, images and sensations that are asking for a physical space in this present world, they are asking for color, shape, texture, taste... they are asking for life. My mission is to provide to this silent memories, a voice and a body, allowing them to become a part of my present, visible world, and therefore, providing them from the opportunity to go on in real time, with a new shape and a new purpose. In my own perception of time and space. I visualize our human mind a vast structure with doors and windows, exits and entries, same ones which we close and open to our will.
A window of time is a glimpse of existence, a glimpse of a feeling, an emotion, and a glimpse of life after all, in whatever shape it comes. The materials I use can be very diverse, in collages it becomes very important to have access to original prints and documents, which are in a way connected the memory in question. With mixed media photographs I use my own prints and work on them using a variety of techniques and mediums, until they lose their contextual shape, becoming in such way only ghosts from the recollection I am intent to materialize.
I see my work as a form of translation from the original memory and the sensations which are left behind into a visual language.
