Up : Down = Down : Up
Ace of Spades
Soft pastels and graphite on paper
35cm x 50cm
2022
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“True, without falsehood, certain, and most true: What is below is like what is above, and what is above is like what is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.”
Tabula smaragdina Hermetis Trismegisti

Ace of Hearts
Soft pastels and graphite on paper
35cm x 50cm
2022


Ace of Flowers
Watercolour and ink on cotton paper
35cm x 50cm
2023
“world harmony : dream = symbols : collective dreams”
Arthur Koestler
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The watercolors on display mention the famous card game to involve us in a perceptive experience, where shape and color guide us on a path of contradiction. The chromatic inversion of the four axes is comparable to a symbolic mental projection focused on the acceptance of the paradox. A somersault at the bottom of the pool on the oblique threshold of consciousness of the error.

Ace of Diamonds
Watercolour and ink on cotton paper
35cm x 50cm
2023

Ace of Spades
Watercolour and ink on cotton paper
35cm x 50cm
2023

Ace of Hearts
Watercolour and ink on cotton paper
35cm x 50cm
2023

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