My favorite type of art is total art: storytelling through image, matter, music, light, scent, space and intuition. It begins with writing—from lived emotions, memory, myth and deep research. Characters rise in me like a film; I hear their music, feel their colors, textures and wounds. Then I enter a creative spiral, almost a trance, shaping words, paint and matter into an operatic world where visitors enter my inner universe and find echoes of their own, leaving with light, relief, and freedom.

I find inspiration in the invisible traces people leave behind: in words, music, bodies, wounds, light, injustice, lies and the unfinished. My father, love, illness, death, memory, silent cinema and the movement of sculpted forms guide me. I listen to emotions as secret scores, to what could not be said, to life’s beauty and meanders. And, through art, I create to restore truth, give breath back to silenced voices, and turn pain into beauty, dignity, connection, freedom, and another way to live.

With $25,000, I would help complete the budget for my Venice Art Biennale 2026 presence, from August to November, with my exhibition In C Minor – From Silence to the Breath of Life, at Palazzo Franchetti, home of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, near the Accademia Bridge. I would also support creative workshops for blind children and a dog shelter, because art, care and love belong to the same breath.