"During my residency in Trapani, I encountered the paradox of Sicilian winter, an arid, sunburnt season that destroys most blooming life. Plants appeared brittle and sharp like bones, yet carried a distinctly feminine quality in their instinct for self-protection. From this experience, I began creating myths that merge the natural and animal worlds, such as seaweeds resembling cat tails imagined as the remains of drowned cats washed ashore. These transformations, where one form becomes another, are central to my practice and reflect what I see as a profoundly feminine capacity for empathy and metamorphosis.
At the same time, I was struck by how beauty in Sicily is preserved within architecture: plant motifs rendered in rusty steel railings and engraved into marble facades, kept alive forever in material form even as their natural life remains fleeting. This symbolic immortality of feminine beauty resonates with the themes that run through my work.
I consider my practice sculptural, an approach that extends from sourcing wood and working with local fishermen repairing boats, to selecting fabrics in the market and incorporating natural elements harvested around the area. I build my paintings as sculptures and bring them together in installation.”
