Selected work | 2023-2026

Taste of absence | Life size figure in water based clay , 2024.  Honorable mention at Arc Salon 18th Sculpture category

         The trick is… instead of thinking there is a tangerine here… you need to forget that there isn’t one. The important thing is that you have to really want one.” — burning based on Haruki Murakami”s short story “Barn Burning”

There is a moment when desire fills the space left by absence, where what is longed for becomes almost tangible—not because it exists, but because the wanting itself takes form. This sculpture captures that fleeting space between having and imagining, the illusion of touch and the reality of emptiness.

The figure’s gesture is tender yet deliberate, as if cradling something unseen, something remembered or hoped for. Her expression suggests an inward gaze, a silent knowing that what she holds is not there, and yet, in the way her fingers curve, in the way her body leans into the moment, it exists. In this quiet tension, the sculpture speaks not only of loss, but of the ability to conjure, to transform absence into something almost—almost—real.

Francesco | Life size torso in water based clay , 2024. Selected as 'Finalist' Arc Salon 17th. 

            The human form is forever in a state of flux; offered here is a candid portrayal of the physique in the here and now, searingly capturing even the minutest imperfections. Each mole, each speck on the skin adds to this tableau, potentially eliciting an uncanny sensation in the observer. This sculpture challenges the preconceived expectations of the traditional portrayal of the human form and seeks to induce contemplation about the scope and limits of classical figurative art.

Skin, metaphorically, is the threshold of the body's interaction with the world. It acts as a reflective surface, mirroring the internal and external, the physical and spiritual, narrating a fluid and ongoing story through its contours and nuances. Each iteration of it whispers a tale stirs the soul and questions the norms.

Laura | Reclining figure study, 3/4 life size in water based clay, 2023.

           In this work I aim to represent the contrast/paradox of presence vs absence in the sculpture. The artwork’s subject (the model) is “absent” because she is focused on an interior private world that is invisible by definition, but I am showing her as having “presence” because that is the nature of the medium. It can only exist in a 3D tactile realm even if it’s theme is the opposite. By adding a realistic representation of the real situation of being the model, adding items such as the ear plugs, the foam pads under the feet, the mobile phone, details of the fabric and pillow; my aim is to capture a moment in real life, a moment with her presence as well as her absence. 

Federica | Life size female torso in water based clay, 2023.

Andrea | Half life size figure | 2023

Ruby | Half life size figure | 2023