Original artwork description:

The breath of time- canvas cm.100x75.
A surreal image par excellence, it was created after a trip I made to Cairo and after having been to Giza and having been conquered by the fascination and mystery surrounding this magical place, on my return I felt the need to dedicate one of my works to them. In the plain of Giza, I felt ‘The Breath of Time’, a warm breath coming in accompanied by a dancer who, as she came to me, unravelled as in a breath.
In this composition, the moon symbolises the soul, our way of experiencing emotions, dreams. The woman with her body, with her movements, to suggest fantasies, ideas and dreams. The combination of bodies, shapes, colours and spaces give the composition a surrealist flavour. The spaces are mental places, imagined territories on the border between reality and fiction, places where a theatrical action takes shape, with the pyramids symbolising perfection, fascination and mystery hidden beneath the desert sands in the Giza plain.
Part of the creative process in this work is the pictorial intervention of dripping enamels, in the style of Action Painting, like Sam Francis. The canvas has finished edges, and is ready to hang even if not framed. As specified above the inspiration came from a trip of mine. A lot of my work is inspired by travel. Travelling is like dreaming. I would like the person looking at this painting to be ready to travel in time, to arrive at the present day, and to feel: the breath of time, the time that inexorably consumes us, wears us out, but which makes us live and enjoy, and if our whole life is but a dream, then welcome dreams, where we can take refuge, to lose ourselves and live. The subject is an evocative landscape with the presence of a female body to animate the scene, the style is undoubtedly Surreal Figurative.
Mixed technique with enamels and dripping on canvas. Authentic work executed by me in a single piece.

Materials used:

enamel and varnish on canvas

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