I started to sketch the first thing that came into my mind. One of the first images was me as a child holding a bouquet of roses, my hands bleeding, and started to think of this idea “flowers can hurt”, I was thinking about the beauty of the flowers that hide thorns, despite their innocent appearance, they can hurt. I was thinking about what I show/how I appear and how I really feel. Aren’t we very good at hiding emotions? I was thinking about a duality of sorts, or maybe embracing everything that a flower is, because there is violence in Nature.

Here I am presenting a picture of the studio view, which I have installed like a mind-mapping, image above is on the center as from there I think several symbols came out. Looking at the portraits next to each other, I see them as each other’s alter ego. I went back to this idea of duality, which I feel like encompasses my life (being a mother/being a woman, appearance/internal psychological life) and the need to embrace it.

Looking at this wall, it sort of seems to me that the subjects I make are all portraits, like psychological states, questions, doubts, little details of recollections, thoughts and little obsessions. Like recollecting a memory, you often see just one small detail of something bigger, it even reminds you a certain period of your life or something stronger, a physical sensation you feel often, sometimes you don’t know where it is coming from. That’s all you can see and maybe that’s enough.