Statement

I paint what I live: friends, places, loved ones, or people I meet by chance. Sometimes they are everyday scenes, such as people in a bar or on the subway; sometimes simple faces or portraits.
I am interested in the history of an image, the evolution and the transformation that the pictorial image undergoes over time. I use oil painting on canvas as a medium, often combined with other materials such as shellac or soil.
The observation of visible reality is the starting point to begin the journey of painting. During execution, the paintings change their appearance many times. The image appears, disappears, becomes defined, turns abstract again, and then redefines itself under layers of pictorial matter. This “clash” between “creation and destruction” is what remains visible of the painting. The “survived” image, developed over time, has been transfigured by these destructive and creative forces.
The result of this slow inner process of image development is never like the one imagined at the beginning; therefore, the element of failure, of error, together with change, constitute the foundations of my research.
Painting for me is the diary of life.