TIME MACHINE

A new technique for a new beginning

A glimpse of a city in the distance, blurred by time. The outlines of buildings flicker, uncertain, as if emerging from a memory that is no longer entirely yours. The passage of time has softened their shapes, turned them into fragments—pieces of a puzzle that no longer fits together perfectly.

I created this artwork starting from technique—it came to me through mental images. I knew how I wanted to create, but I had no idea what it would ultimately become.

It was early summer 2024. I had just moved into a new home with enormous windows that let in a magical light. There was a completely new energy around me—fresh, vibrant, inviting me to play, to try something different. And there, at the very beginning of it all, I embraced the call to experiment. I became completely absorbed in a creative process unlike anything I had experienced before.

Attaching the pieces of paper felt like discovering the perfect fit for something that didn’t yet exist—not even as an image in my mind. This puzzle of fragments took shape before my eyes, and as I was carried away by the process, I wasn’t even fully aware of what I was creating. It was pure magic, a transcendent emotion—one that I have continued to seek in every work that followed.

There is no clear path, no defined horizon, only shifting layers of time. The painting is a threshold, a place where past and present coexist, where memory is both vivid and unreliable. Like a time machine, it does not take you backward or forward but suspends you in the in-between—a space where the past lingers, reshaped by nostalgia and the act of remembering.