Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard 14,8 x 10.5 cm, December 2025

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


Ballpoint pen on cardboard, 140 x 130 cm, October 2023

The landscape has always been a source of research for me, because within it, within the tangle of signs and in the development of forms without man, I see a possibility of a new, ancestral development. It finds itself, represented in my gaze that leads the sign like the gaze of someone who lays their eyes on it without being inside, but always placing themselves on the margins, like a spectator who remains on the sidelines.
The development of the forms full of subtle and incessant strokes reveals its entire construction, the skeleton and casing appear transparent and uncovered in all its parts to give the image a character of creative frenzy, of necessary constructive impetus.
This landscape is placed in a fundamental point of my proposal for reflection on nature, which from here on will carry out a slow and inexorable descent towards depth without ever, as repeatedly repeated, hiding anything of the formal path that allowed its growth.
The smallest sign must be legible and be able to be isolated from the rest in the urgency of transforming the drawing into a path that has a main and sole objective, the recognizability of its chronology within it



Il paesaggio è per me fonte di ricerca da sempre, perchè all’interno di esso, all’interno dell’intrico di segni e nello sviluppo di forme senza l’uomo, io vedo una possibilità di uno sviluppo nuovo, ancestrale. Esso si ritrova, rappresentato nel mio sguardo che conduce il segno come lo sguardo di chi posa gli occhi addosso, senza esserci dentro, ma collocandosi sempre ai margini, come uno spettatore che rimane in disparte.
Lo sviluppo delle forme piene di tratti sottili e incessanti rivela tutta la sua costruzione, scheletro e involucro appaiono trasparenti e scoperti in tutte le sue parti a dare all’immagine un carattere di frenesia creativa, di necessario impeto costruttivo.
Questo paesaggio si colloca in un punto fondamentale della mia proposta di riflessione sulla natura, che svolgerà, da qui in poi una lenta e inesorabile discesa verso la profondità senza mai, come più volte ripetuto nascondere nulla del percorso formale che ne ha permesso la crescita.
Il più piccolo segno deve essere leggibile e poter essere isolato dal resto nell’urgenza di trasformare il disegno in un sentiero che ha un principale ed unico obiettivo, la riconoscibilità della sua cronologia all’interno di esso.
Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard, 14,8 x 10,5 cm, September 2023
