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SERIE WITNESSES (Work in progress)

The series' central theme revolves around an un animal animal that observes a scene or actively participates in it. The scenes reveal aspects of human fragility, misfortune, or folly that are not always evident or that are sometimes consciously concealed.

The series consists of two parts:

Part 1: 11 larger works (oils and acrylics, which can be seen below) reflect our frustrations, fears, disappointments, bitterness, anger, pain… feelings that sometimes translate into unusual behaviors, which the neural universe manages autonomously, paying homage to our subconscious and releasing strange substances in the brain that enslave the body, the physical being. This being reacts through Unusual Addictions and Confessable Secrets … or notboth connected by the need to remain strictly private, by the need to keep them hidden… or not. There is only one witness capable of recounting what happened, but they cannot, are not interested in, and do not care to tell it.  

Part 2: 11 smaller works (drawings, watercolors, mixed media pieces that can be seen in the Fragments tab) are Visual Metaphors where an animal is still present, but here, it is also an active agent in the scene, connecting with the idea of ​​an inner journey. We are born inhabiting a space of absolute purity, but we face the loss of innocence… an imposed and necessary burden to become individuals who seek fulfillment. And after that, we often understand, painfully, that the world is not the perfect dwelling place. It is a vital fracture and the moment when we discover that our actions have consequences. It is there that the existential duality between good and evil is revealed to us.. 

Sometimes, we hate with justification…and without it, we hate to feel alive and we hate as an instrument to manipulate others from our own ego. But good is not merely the absence of harm, of evil, but the will to build and to understand others. Sometimes, instead of processing pain, human beings transform it into resentment, and not infrequently… the evil projected turns against oneself, because it acts like a corrosive acid, destroying the container before it can even reach its target.

And if innocence is irretrievable… and evil lurks around every corner… what saves us and what gives meaning to the human experience?… Undoubtedly, the power of love, as the highest expression of good. As an example of this pure and genuine feeling: the love of animals, adorable or not. Animals as the central axis that unites both parts of the series, and WITNESSES to the actions of external or internal agents that interact with oneself or with others.