See Me With Eyes Directed Towards Eternity

The work of art is a visual message that resonates with the soul of those who discover it.

I'm at sea, fully enjoying the Greek coastline. I look around, with emotion, with admiration, with the insight of a Sherlock Holmes among paintings, as if I should find among the variety of images around me an infinitely small part of my personality. A distinct one that forges a new image of how the "extraordinary" in the everyday becomes a Shatiitusni Oridaass Etta Inevaenci, an expression of feelings born from an uplifting search for inner truth".

And what do I see? I see things everywhere, levers of inspiration, from simple multi-colored lounge chairs, to green palm trees that seem to have spread naturally. The sand changes color when the waves recede. The warm wind blows constantly, but in gentle gusts, and the water is an intense blue, as warm and pleasant as in any corner of the island. Of course, in all this amalgam of places, views, geometric shapes, attractions, contrasts, visual and sound languages, among which I have every chance to find the dreamlike state of an unforgettable sunset, I must strive not only to imitate nature, but so and surpass them as far as Creation is concerned.

Virtually everything before me appears in the radiance of a great spirit and character, a chosen tool of Creation designed to intensify the colorism in search of the light of vitality, as if I should plunge into a fantastic and apparently illusory world, a fragment of the hologram of heaven, just to increase the power of the supernatural in pictorial art. Ultimately, this is what it means to be a painter: I must explore the colorism of the supernatural in pictorial art, so as to transcend the known limits of reality and create a new and mystical dimension within a living, authentic painting.

Does your vision have a content that pushes the concept of art towards the idea of "interpretive effort" aimed at finding out hidden meanings of the subject in the foreground?

Perhaps the sea, as I look at it with eyes full of wonder, wrapping my gaze in its dancing waves, is giving me an eye test. It's not for nothing that I feel exhausted trying to capture, in an instant formula, a punctual state, or to capture aesthetically the essence of the space that feeds boundless thoughts, stringing together constellations of possibilities. In fact, the artist in the horizon of the sea deepens, gets lost, finds himself, rejoices and sighs, thus releasing the valences of an unconventional creativity that paints with many unusual words.

The foundation on which this becomes possible depends on the totality of views concentrated in a single vision, a process of substitution or restriction subordinate to action and thought, expressing a content that pushes the concept of art towards the idea of "interpretive effort" aimed at finding out hidden meanings of the subject in the foreground. But the sight remains a mystery if I don't consider Andersen's words from the famous story "The Little Mermaid:"

- But why don't we also have immortal souls? asked the little princess sorrowfully to the old queen of the seas. I would gladly give my hundreds of years just to be a mortal for one day and have the hope that I too will know happiness in that wonderful world beyond the stars. Even if sometimes I feel happier than the mortals above. But even I will die one day, and like the foam of the sea, I will float on the surface of the sea without ever hearing the music of the waves again or seeing the beautiful flowers or their sun. Is there nothing I can do to get an immortal soul?

Does your creation bring to the fore the hidden subtleties of the subject that concerns you at a deep level, and which is always wanted at the level of the comparison between reality and the imaginary?

I believe that the only way to enter the sphere of aesthetic experience, changing my perception of the surrounding world through seeing, visions, and interpreting the meanings of life from a call of the sea, is to bring to the fore the hidden subtleties of the subject that concerns me at a deep level, of the subject that is always wanted at the level of symbols and metaphors. Only such a subject could illustrate the specificity of spirituality: "the exploration of the deep dimensions of human existence that go beyond the material and rational aspects of life".

The work of art is a bridge between reality and dream, between seen and understood, especially if I relate to a story character who wants to become real in my reality. Actually, I think that's what an artist does. Like the work of art, seen as a form of transcendent communication through aesthetics and emotion, as a refuge for contemplation and introspection, the artist knows how to merge two apparently foreign worlds: a world that flourishes in imagination and a world that comes to life in reality.

Can you give your creation a permanence that suggests "living the evoked moment", creating an affective safety in the sense of the permanence of the work of art that depicts reality as a story?

The artist who aspires to a certain permanence has another way of creating his affective security, obviously in the sense of the permanence of the work of art. Nothing is superfluous, everything is necessary. In order to reach beyond what he sees, without lowering art to the level of a banal imitation, he must find the window to the human essence, where reality and dream merge into a mysterious world where the story of the unseen and unheard is written.

So, the work of art is not only a spiritual journey through colors, shapes and textures, but also represents a sublime manifestation of the fragility and ephemerality of life, in contrast to the search for a higher dimension of the spirit.

The Little Mermaid knows that her image is not fleeting, but eternal, herself not limited to the mortal sphere, but transcending the boundaries of the immortals. In this sense, the artist's eye becomes a completely singular way of forming the correspondence between what is seen, stimulated by emotions, and what is possessed through this sight, being above all that is known through the senses and through the mind.

Focusing only on the unrepeatable quality of the way to form a bridge between reality and dream, the artist creates an image that is not constrained by the earthly, but transcendental, and this because he himself does not want to be imprisoned in the ephemeral, but free in eternity...

The form that leadership takes in the sense of Creation coincides with the image expressed by the artist in a journey through time and space, which reveals unexpected connections between the eternal present and the timeless moment.

See Me With Eyes Directed Towards Eternity so that you can meet me in the present moment from which you will never be able to detach yourself. This can be better understood in terms of creation that uses a story to express an experience meant to highlight the nobility of the human soul, the power of sacrifice and giving, sincerity and empathy.

Indeed, there are writers like Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, who left a hidden message in each of their works. Many children read their stories, but they read them too soon, without understanding their message. Only an artist who has reached the age of full artistic maturity knows how to see what goes unnoticed for others.