from Classical Greece
VESTIGES
Layers of Memory
Each piece in the series VESTIGES functions as a bridge between three moments in the history of humanity, brought together within a single image.
PALEOLITHIC
Earth Ground
The terracotta ground evokes the red earth and mineral pigments used by early humans to depict and understand the world.
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PALEOLITHIC
Charcoal
The black charcoal recalls one of the oldest materials used to create images, born from the same fire that sustained early human life.
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Upon this foundation, figures and compositions emerge through a classical and naturalistic visual language, a tradition that has evolved across centuries.
and the Renaissance
to later artistic movements
At the final layer,
the highlights are rendered in titanium white, a pigment born from the industrial and chemical processes of modernity.
In this way, the work does not merely represent the passage of time, but physically constructs it.
Primitive materials constitute the greater part of the image.
The classical and naturalistic language determines its structure and representation.
Modern material appears only in the final details, as a finishing intervention.
The history of humanity is thus frozen within a single image, like layers that accumulate and remain simultaneously visible.
PALEOLITHIC
Terracotta and Charcoal
Associated with the origins of representation,
visually dominate the surface.
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CLASSICISM
Classical Language
Traverses the entirety of the compositions
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MODERNITY
Titanium White
Appears sparingly, reserved for the highest highlights and final details.
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The quantity of each element therefore reflects, symbolically, the temporal depth of the era it represents.
That which belongs to a distant past occupies most of the work, while modernity, much more recent within human history, appears only as a final, delicate layer.