ALCHEMY Series

I could say that all of these artworks started from this piece which I particularly love: in "The Great Work - Magnum Opus" two fishes are floating around an iridescent glittery ball.

To me it represents the search for the Truth and the search for a wider meaning we are able to get close to just for a few instants, which are kind of enlightments. Truth is an intuition and kind of a lightning that passes through you and in that very moment everything is absolutely clear: but it doesn't last. You have to fix it one way or another or it's gone forever.

The most of the times Truth is right in front of us: but if it hurts, we prefer spending ages - and wasting time - floating around that light without actually seeing it.

We are all made of flesh, bones, dreams and hopes.
What happens when wings are ferociously teared off by an angel back and chewed? I wanted the viewer to clearly hear the cracking of chewed wings when staring at this artwork. Because this is the sound of broken dreams (by the way, it works with broken hearts as well).

There's something very special inside our skulls: an amazing tool that we can barely grasp the potential of. It's several lives long training but we can achieve awareness through the experience we make day by day on this precious Earth through our amazing bodies. Experience, if well practiced, becomes something extremely precious: Wisdom. And like every treasure it has to be watched by elegant, mesmerizing, flexible and reliable wardens.

In "And" artwork, the dualism already mentioned in Self Portraits and Love Series, comes again.

Diptera necrophages are walking on pelvic bones, reminding of what might happen after death to a body: insects are all golden painted and bones have been covered with golden glitter dust changing the perspective through colour choice. It's kind of a holy scene, where rather than display death, actually it's the cycle of life that through transformation affirms itself again. Life never ends.

Morula, according to Britannica's definition, is a "solid mass of blastomeres resulting from a number of cleavages of a zygote, or fertilized egg. Its name derives from its resemblance to a mulberry."
Morula is the very first stage of life, when a human egg is fertilised by a spermatozoon.

I wanted to move this "fusion and growth" concept to what I think should happen when a couple (symbolically represented by the two fishes) is truly in love: they melt. They melt their own lives together, giving birth to something special, rich and unique: when this occurs, boundaries between two persons are cancelled and you cannot really say when one ends and the other begins (see veil fins).