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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

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Ace of Hearts

Soft pastels and graphite on paper
35cm x 50cm
2022

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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.

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Ace of Diamonds

Watercolour and ink on cotton paper
35cm x 50cm
2023

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Ace of Spades

Watercolour and ink on cotton paper
35cm x 50cm
2023

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Ace of Hearts

Watercolour and ink on cotton paper
35cm x 50cm
2023

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