I am drawn to the relationship between nature, perception, and the marks left by human presence. I approach art as a form of visual reportage—observing, questioning, and documenting through sculpture, painting, film, and installation.

In the 1990s, I divided my time between Italy and the Amazon rainforest. In Italy, I conducted independent research on Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic sculpture, following what I called “The Route to Marble,” which led me to carve marble pillows: soft, intimate forms that offer a kind of elevation—a space to drift into parallel landscapes that counterbalance my observational approach.

Alternating these journeys with long stays in the rainforest, though these worlds may seem opposite, I experienced them as one—together, they have become the foundation of my work.

 

 

I have organized my work into three constellations that examine different dimensions of this relationship: