Art, drawing on the spirit,
speaks to the heart

It is in creating and loving that I find confirmation that I was created in God's image.

INSPIRATIONS

I want to believe that it is God who shapes my thoughts and feelings, and I let Him guide me, through the joy and hardship of the sculpting process, to create a work that evokes His beauty, the inexhaustible source of my inspiration.

My desire is to create something more than a serialised object of artistic craftsmanship. A thought, surrounded by prayer for days, months or years, transforms into a sculpture over time. Thus, in the pursuit of reflection on True Beauty, the ideas for my works are born. The mysteries contemplated take the form of empty spaces and fullness.
I timidly approach the lives of the Saints to show them as different, yet so similar, original, each fully themselves. Working on a piece is my prayer. Creation is a private encounter with God; moments of tears, thanksgiving, delight, contemplation and silence, in order to remain in truth and intuition.

Constant questions, trials, decisions, fatigue, failures, fear, falls, resolutions, changes – it is a continuous process of conversion. Each stage of work is another stage of prayer, often accompanied by the Eucharist. It is the acceptance of the hardships of everyday life, the pulsating life and the mystery of lived life.

I entrust the entire creative development of the model and the risky process of casting to God, so that everything may come to fruition according to His will. It is a daily prayer that He may guide my hands to His glory.

Just as the forms of the sculpture emerge transformed from the flames, rich in experience they did not have before, so I, the artist, am no longer who I was before after each encounter. Only the seal – my signature – remains the same. Now my life is different... until the next sculpture.

Faith is a relationship, a bond, an encounter with God – a Person. It is the conviction that He loved me first, without my merit, just as I am. Faith is the certainty that God desires my happiness and the awareness that He has placed the desire for happiness in my heart, leading me to a free choice: to become a wife, a mother, a friend, an artist.

We find happiness by discovering the world within ourselves and encountering Him there, to give true meaning to what is happening outside. Only deep within ourselves, in the presence of God, can we feel complete happiness. Faith allows us to see our often black-and-white lives in all their beauty.

Empty space plays a key role in my sculptures. I have a precise concept of emptiness: it is an experience leading to fullness, a narrow door that feeds the materiality of visual language and saturates the practical experience of reality. I often remove what is unnecessary to reveal what is necessary.

In a work of art, this apparent absence has a special meaning. Emptiness creates space for the life of form, just as silence does in my life. In order to perceive the form of a sculpture, in addition to light, we must observe darkness; in order to emphasise fullness, the role of emptiness is necessary.

Discovering silence allows us to descend into ourselves, to remove everything that clutters, burdens and is unnecessary, leaving room for Him to enter. This darkness, this emptiness, this silence becomes inhabited. Mystical places, full of silence, allow us to enter deep within ourselves, into contemplation of Creation, just as many saints built their lives.

There are wonderful places in nature, pristine, quiet, like natural temples – which help us discover ourselves and create. Nature, with its wonderful rhythm of life, inspires me immensely. The echo of nature can be heard in each of my works.

In these places, I collect roots, plants, leaves, bark and thorns to translate them into the language of sculpture. I seek a relationship between myself and the world, trying to transcend apparent reality. Reality is always greater than what I understand about it.

Fascinated by matter, I experiment with its resistance to gesture in order to recreate in art the diverse impulses of nature, which generates life through its eternal rebirth. My research focuses on traces and imprints, on hidden signs that require listening and silence. Imprints are a ‘desire’ for individuality. Like reflections of nature, they are created in layers of matter. Reliefs, absorbing delicate light, reveal and describe the landscape of my soul.

The film below is extremely important to me.
It is not only a valuable experience in my creative work, but also my perspective on art, light, and spirituality. I encourage you to watch it as a personal invitation to a part of my world of beauty.
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