In the last few years, studying art in other cultures, I was led to the Islamic geometric patterns. Those patterns explore the relationship between unity and multiplicity.
The designs (warp) show the ever-changing colors and forms that come from a same structure (weft), so the same weft can produce uncountable warps.
My aim is, through the combination of patterns and colors, warps and wefts, to produce paintings that should be able to move the viewer to experiment the structure of the painting. The patterns and designs invite the viewer to “lock into” the painting, and to “travel” throughout it, in this way experiencing the constructions and deconstructions explored in the weft/warp relationship.
As I research and apply these geometric patterns in drawings and paintings, I try to reach a visual aesthetic that makes sense in our time and our own fast paced society, and that is able to promote a dialogue with this culture, so distant and at the same time so close to us.
