I’ve always been sensitive to the inexorable passage of time.
I named my first series “Vanitas” after the painting tradition that deals with the difficulty of facing up to the transitory nature of all things.
Photography cannot save the butterfly from time.
It can only freeze it for a moment to represent its soul before it inevitably disappears.
This is what this art does with an emotion, with light, with a flower or a body: it simply captures a single instant before it’s gone forever.
I’ve allowed this deep awareness of the ephemeral nature of things to mature within me, to make it less melancholic and to celebrate it in my recent works inspired by Eastern arts and culture and the cycle Birth-Death-Rebirth.
Photography allows me to represent the transitory nature of things, highlighting how everything melts into a never-ending universal flow.
This is what shaped my most recent work. This current series is my way of trying to break away from a binary view of life and death to see them instead as two sides of the same looking glass that we must pass through: one cannot exist without the other.
It reminds us that we are here and now, and that we are here, as Hölderlin puts it, “to poetically inhabit the world”.
