“Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura...” the inner research is like to walk... Read More
“Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi
ritrovai per una selva oscura...” the inner research is like to walk in a dark dense
forest, without many paths, with sudden dangers and great wonderful surprises…
In my paintings I draw inspiration from the symbols and mental maps that I trace during
the sessions as a psychoanalyst: worksheets full of signs that summarize
the infinite complexity of our inner
life. In the background I paint the contest and express through the colors the quality of the
emotional atmosphere, above I write, with barely legible calligraphy, the
entire contents of the session, and finally I trace the mental map with all the symbols and connections between
elements.
This is a triptych because it express three different stage of the inner research:
at the beginning the path pretty is undefined, there are few visible trails,
many possibilities but none clear, then as the research develops the trails become more
precise and the path takes one single direction. If we look closely at the symbols, the meaning
becomes clear: everything is written, painted, drawn on this canvasses…