WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF: PRESENTATION

1 series of artworks
   

"Hope is the dream of a waking man."
Aristotle

Inspiration For This Series

A journey in weightlessness and full of color…

There are surges the words struggle to contain, breaths that only light knows how to whisper. The series of paintings titled “What Dreams Are Made Of”, part of my “Evanescence” collection, is born within this suspended space—where the soul sheds earthly certainties to soar toward an invisible elsewhere. This body of work is a breath from above, a message received, transmitted, made manifest in matter. Every gesture upon the canvas is a silent prayer, a trace of this inner dialogue with the infinite.

Through the fluidity of forms, the soul seeks, ascends, collides, hesitates, begins again. Nothing is fixed—everything is in motion. A fragile ascent, not vertical but interior, that knows neither summit nor end. It follows the rhythm of the spirit, in its quest for light.

Matter here becomes the mirror of the invisible: it bears the imprints of the heavens, but also the resistance of the earth. It is within this tension that true expression arises.

Everything begins in silence. There, in that suspended moment where, as an artist, I become a mere channel—an instrument in the service of the Wind of winds—the visible withdraws to let intuition flow.

It is in this breath from elsewhere that forms emerge, carried by the movement of water, by the dance of the wind, by the murmur of light. Nothing is premeditated; everything is welcomed.

The colors are not chosen—they are summoned. Some, at times, warm like gentle embers; others, more often, glide like breaths of azure. In the lighter hues, nearly transparent, applied with water-soaked brushes like watercolor, one senses a reference to all things celestial and upward-calling. In the brighter tones, applied with knives to let the texture rise, there is a grounding reminder.
The tones meet, repel, melt into one another. They tell the story of the tension between impulse and restraint, between the call of the infinite and the invisible roots of our reality. Blue brushes against eternity, gold vibrates like an inner light, and dark tones whisper of the weight of earth.

In this language of the invisible, the elements are not symbols—they are presences. Water, suggested through trembling motions, does not merely appear; it flows through, dilutes, reveals. It carries away outlines and turns matter into a mirror of the soul. Through its reflections, we contemplate our own interiority.
A constant fluidity dissolves the boundaries, blurs the frontiers between what rises and what resists, between what aspires and what holds back. It reveals a truth so often forgotten: that all is in motion—and that even light exists only because it moves. Air is here too—subtle, yet active. It lifts the forms, nudges them, scatters them. It is that intangible breath that gives lines their momentum, colors their breath. It speaks of the invisible that guides us, of the force that cannot be seen but is deeply felt. The ascent is never abrupt, never imposed; it is a gentle push, an inner vibration that takes shape in silence. And then, there is the earth—not as a rigid base, but as a depth, a density that reminds us of our incarnation. The shadowed areas are not denials of light, but witnesses to the weight that makes flight possible. For without gravity, there is no impulse. Without resistance, no transcendence. Shadow makes light possible, just as silence allows a song to be heard. In each canvas, this tension is palpable: the soul seeks to rise, yet it still carries the marks of the world.

It is in this oscillation between the ethereal and the dense, between the above and the below, between matter and spirit, that the deep beauty of this series is born. Every form, every stroke, every shade seems to seek balance without ever freezing it in place.

It is not about reaching an end, but walking a path. A path of light, of intuition, of faith. A way in which abstraction becomes prayer, and painting becomes a breath of soul come from the sky.

In my series “What Dreams Are Made Of”, each piece seems to move to a rhythm, a silent pulse—like an invisible heart beating beneath the surface. This breath is not mechanical; it is organic, inspired. It sways, it vibrates, it breathes. It echoes the rhythm of a soul in motion, the reverberation of a life seeking to connect with something greater, higher, purer.

Painting becomes, then, not a surface to observe, but a space to inhabit. A territory of resonance where each viewer is invited to hear their own inner rhythm, to listen to the quiet song of their own light.

Verticality, so present throughout the series, is not a forced direction—it is an intention. A silent prayer offered upward. Like inverted roots, the forms rise, ascend, seek clarity. But they do not rise alone: they carry with them their shadows, their hesitations, their weight. They remind us that true ascent does not come from denying the earth, but from passing through it, accepting it, illuminating it from within (.../...)

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