"Blu and Silk" (light containers) is an ongoing series of paintings, exploring the potential of the pictorial surface to filter and modulate the passage of light (transparency). The painting is created with oil on a delicate layer of silk, which is stretched and applied over transparent plexiglass. The plexiglass-silk assembly is then set inside a painted wooden box. The artwork becomes a container of light in which the translucent silk-plexiglass layer allows light to pass through the surface of the painting, generating a deep three-dimensional effect where shapes look like they are in continuous motion. The image of the painting thus becomes an ambivalent object continuously moving in a borderline zone, going back and forth on the boundary between what is visible and invisible. This effect is reinforced by the reflecting properties of silk which evoke shifting memories reflecting the fragility and fragmented character of self-identity.
