Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard, 14,8 x 10,5 cm, August 2024

Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard, 21 x 29,7 cm, April 2024

“In Search of Blue” is an exhibit of works about the color Blue and all that it may convey.
For this exhibit, 225 artists submitted 820 works from 37 states, Washington D.C., and 12 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and the United States. Sixteen works by the following 12 artists from 8 states, Italy, and Portugal were selected by a blind jury process for presentation in the gallery and the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication:
Madeline Bass, Jan Burleson, Summer Doll-Myers, Meryl Engler, John Greig Jr, Melissa Haviland, Willard Lustenader, Alberto Repetti, Luis Filipe Rodrigues, Jill Stoll, Annmarie Suglio, Dennis Wogan
I am honored and excited to participate with two of my works in this edition of the competition.
I thank all the organizers of the event, Jason Franz, Katie Baker and all those who work for the promotion of arts and education within Manifest.

The works selected for this exhibition are: “The Blue Path” and “Cloud Standing Over the Sea


The study of the portrait is for me an analysis that uses the lines, volumes and colors that I can find within the specific space of the model.
I recognize within it, in the model, my involvement regarding the arrangement of the form. It is affected by my attention towards details that I enhance or diminish, intensify or eliminate depending on the interest that the reconstruction of the volumes has on the general impact of the icon.
We are a shell in which the perception of our eyes is totally symbiotic with the evaluation of our word to define them. Fragmentary and necessarily distinct, for each of us. Uniques


