Artist’s Statement

A painting carries within itself nostalgia for that which wished to be expressed and finally could not be said. Nostalgia for a different reality, a moment perceived and impossible to transcribe. There is suffering in the process of the birth of an image, suffering in the constant uncertainty found at each step. At the best moment, the one we call 'the man of art' becomes an instrument through which movement and energy take form.

The painter is at once midwife, juggler, and beggar; he portrays the invisible, the world of hidden emotion stamped in each human being. This is how the painter 'represents': he brings to life that which others before him have sung—as it is, in fact, a question of sound, ringing in different epochs on different instruments, but never repeated.