I collected in Chromotherapy all the works in which I felt that color had a greater importance than elsewhere.
Torn Talking Tapestries are all quite large works, some are mutations and extensions of Organics and Psychotapestries, others were created from hand-made works.
In the Torn Talking Tapestries the idea of tapestry has evolved to greater complexity. New elements have been added that make the surface even more like a multidimensional landscape, as if a gap opened up and further dimensions became visible.
Cryptos are calligraphic works that always involve a word, a phrase, or lines of a poem.
They are compositions of letters and signs that intersect and intertwine.
They are about weaving words and turning texts into textures.
At first Deviants were nothing more than works to which I could not assign a family.
Deviants have a very independent character and they do not resemble each other.
Greys are mutations of Organics and Psychotapestries patterns, which have lost their color and taken on a more serious and, in some cases, melancholic character as if some patterns had aged but gained wisdom and depth.
Dressed Words are graphic design works, where short or longer texts are placed on top of a background that dresses them up, makes them stand out and adds an extra layer of meaning.
Holy towers are large vertical works that recall towers, menhirs, doors, stained glass windows, skyscrapers…
They are combinations of elements drawn from all the other families.
New Primitives and Silhous are figurative or abstract works which look like they were found in an old cave, somewhere in a land we don’t visit very often.
They have something archaic and seem to come from a tribal past. But their message is new, turned to a future still unknown.
New Primitives and Silhous are less about lost memories than about timeless riddles.
Organics are non-figurative drawings.
Signs and symbols float on a chaotic (organic) background, forms try to emerge and reveal / disclose themselves.
Constructs form and dissolve and then return to aggregate into other forms.
In the Organic tapestries, fragments of Organics are mirrored and reproduced to create a surface, like cells becoming tissues.
Psychotapestries are now an exclusively digital category. The hand drawings (called Psychedelics) were large-format drawings made with markers and felt tip pens on a special handmade paper, which absorbed the colors and formed smooth surfaces.
I photographed parts of the original drawings and created variations and mutations, which formed many tapestries and carpets.
Fluid forms evoke the organic substrate of life. This family is, in my perception, especially psychoactive.
Souls represent anthropomorphic beings, some of them carrying mysterious names.
They are a tribute to vulnerability and resilience and an invitation to play with the emotions they evoke.
Some of them receive through mirroring a sort of virtual twin, with a fully different character.
Isomorphic figures show sometimes a kind of numinosity, they look like whimsical gods; some are warriors, others orphans or hermaphrodites.
Stills are abstract works.
This family also includes complex filigree works, virtual embroideries or lattices that could represent networks of relationships, architectures or cells growing into tissues.
At first, they were all in black and white, then some colored ones were born.
Talking Tiles, like Holy Towers, are created from fragments of works belonging to other families.
The idea was to create a series of square or, in some cases, round works that resembled mandalas and could be combined with each other, like letters of an alphabet.
