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My interior design employer in Singapore, H.L.Lim, taught me how to achieve balance and beauty through simple solutions when working on space, colour and material. I then deepened my knowledge on dynamic balances in architecture and design, studying Feng Shuei and the principles of good energy flow according to the Chinese tradition. Painting was then my mean of expressing my artistic side. I used acrylics, oils and watercolours. In 1999 I went to Kosovo as Project Manager to rebuild some schools for an NGO. While there, I started writing poetry and short stories about people I was meeting. After I returned home, I began working with clay and had my work cast in bronze. On one side it was a new dimension of the challenge of combining beauty and structure, on the other the need to let my emotions surface through creativity. I searched for the code that my deeper side uses to express itself through sculptures and painting. It was a kind of art therapy. All humanity refers to a similar set of symbols to portray concepts. Concave and convex, rough and smooth, sharp or rounded, converging or diverging, became words to tell the story of my soul. Studying graph analysis for two years broadened my vision on the many articulated relationships between the emotional life of an individual and the trace he/she leaves on the paper when writing, painting, or doing other creative acts. It was 2003 when I moved to Tanzania as field coordinator to manage a medical project for Medecins sans Frontieres. In my spare time I painted and sculpted; it was my occasion to work with African clay and to meet local art. As my job came to an end, I decided to remain in Tanzania and to dedicate all my energies to my artwork. I joined an international art group, I organized a workshop on clay work and in private sessions I helped others to express their creative side linking it with their emotional life. From one sculpture to the next one, I monitor and express my inner changes, my growing up, my becoming and individual in this world and my building harmony in my relationships. In 2006 I moved to London following my partner. I study Art Therapy I paint and sculpt and write, taking up new challenges and looking into the future with that same curiosity that took me here. This is my journey. |