In the buzzing city, offering so many choices of entertainment and distraction, I look well around and let it all sink in. Then the scenes before my eyes become a poetic metaphor to illustrate what remains abstract when turning inward.

Nature is a theme of high interest to me, and it is one of the key elements in my photography. This connection with nature translates in a dance where lines, forms, shapes, and textures transcend with the use of natural light into sublime abstract performers on a timeless stage. A few artists who influenced me are JMW Turner and David Hockney but also Jasper Johns and his Abstract Expressionism.

The subject doesn’t have to be spectacular to turn it into a good photo. “The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do.' The salvation of photography comes from the experiment”, as rightfully said Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Therefore, I enjoy experimenting with distorting lenses, filters, mirrors, and liquids to transfigure and transform what’s within my reach into an unexpected new reality.

Taking the familiar and making it unfamiliar is one of the objectives of my photographic practice. And most of the times, what matters is to feel the art rather than to understand it. I love to “paint” using my camera as a brush to depict a world rich of invisible beauty which awakes the heart in an enchanting and colourful at times mystic and at times ethereal atmosphere.

A still and awake mind reveals a world that is like an echo to a mirror surface of undisturbed water. Symmetrical, distorted, upside down, blurry or veiled reflected images that show a parallel world that emerges questioning our understanding of what is real and what is unreal.

The images of our imagination are the realities of which any physical manifestation is only the shadow. A purposeful manipulation of reality is made as an attempt to control, frame and package a reflection of myself in a metaphysical dimension silently and deeply rooted in a forgotten realm.

Life’s scenes come before me as part of a very rich and creative theatrical play during a specific timeline. The camera lens, being the eye of the witness, frames the scenes into timeless and unforgettable moments. I like to think that in that moment, I can capture the instant when a creative thought transforms it into something larger than the original idea. Then I can watch and enjoy the process.

In this section, the photograph becomes an image of the folding of space and time. It is a reminder of our place in the world and our distance from it, an ethereal aesthetic, and a romantic sense of illusion. The resulting images are fundamentally dependent on something that exists in the physical world, but because of the melting together of tangible reality and its reflection, they are not literal depictions of it. A couple of artists who have been a big influence on me are De Chirico with his “pittura metafisica” and more specifically in his “metaphysical town square” series where we see sharp contrasts of light and shadow, and Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli.