New Works

An evolving body of work in which handwriting moves beyond portraiture to explore emotional states, inner experience and shared vulnerability. Drawing on poetry, literature and music, each piece transforms an existing text into a visual space where words become bodies, gestures and fragments of human experience. Though rooted in individual stories, these works reflect on emotions that remain deeply personal yet universally recognisable: solitude, silence, endurance and the need for connection.

Everybody Hurts

Ink on paper | Calligram | 70 x 70 cm | 2025

Created through the handwritten lyrics of R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts”, this work explores pain as both an intimate and universal experience.

Words gather into image, giving physical presence to feelings that are often kept invisible. As the writing moves between density and absence, individual suffering becomes part of a shared emotional landscape—a quiet reminder that vulnerability does not isolate us, but connects us.

If / Eye

Ink on paper | Calligram | 20 x 20 cm | 2025

Created through the complete original text of Rudyard Kipling’s “If—”, this work is conceived as a message addressed to a future self.

The words form an eye as a symbol of identity, self-awareness and conscious presence. Its gaze carries the experience of the past while remaining directed towards what lies ahead. Kipling’s reflections on resilience, integrity and self-mastery become a personal reminder: to recognise what has shaped us, to remain present, and not to lose sight of the person we are still becoming.

Silenzio

Ink on paper | Calligram | 18 x 24 cm | 2025

Created through the words of Alda Merini’s “Ho bisogno di silenzio”, this work reflects on silence as a conscious withdrawal from the noise of words.

In the poem, silence is not an absence, but a necessary space in which thoughts can be gathered, heard and understood. The parted lips hold back what might be spoken, while the presence of breath suggests an intimate, living silence: a moment of listening directed both inward and towards those capable of understanding without words.

Ouroboros

Ink on paper | Calligram | 20 x 20 cm | 2026

Created through the repetition of Ovid’s “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit”—“Everything changes, nothing perishes”—this work reflects on transformation as a continuous and irreversible process.

The ancient symbol of the Ouroboros embodies an eternal cycle in which endings become beginnings and destruction gives rise to new forms. As the words repeatedly return to their point of origin, writing itself becomes circular: form is constantly renewed, yet nothing is ever entirely lost.

First developed as a 20 × 20 cm study, the work was later expanded into a live drawing created during VeraCura in Rome.

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