My work is an expression of an epiphany I experienced when I lived in the Mediterranean and connected to my ancestors, their myths and energetic life forces. I had my soul cleansed by the Mediterranean Sea, my heart was set ablaze with the eternal fire of Vesta and my mind was sent on a long psychological journey with the purpose of attaining the collective wisdom of my ancestors and all of their years, thoughts and experiences.
I can’t stress enough the primacy of my first Italian and Mediterranean sojourn in the formation of my artistic voice. I spent two years on the U.S. 6th Fleet Flagship and cruised the entire Med from one end to the other. I felt like Virgil’s Aeneas or Homer’s Ulysses. I had an artistic awakening in those early years of the 1990s. I only left the Mediterranean Sea two times in those two years, first to visit Lisbon and then the Black Sea. Those sea voyages set my art on a unique course.
I strongly adhere to the mariner-pilot-artist concept that was so strongly opinionated by one of my hero-artists Giorgio DeChirico and his brother Alberto Savinio in their literature. This is the Mariner-pilot image that underscores the perpetual odyssey of human consciousness. I am not an artist, I am a Navigator-Seeker-Esthete. My works are my maps and charts. As a navigator, I am mapping and charting my mind, that is to say, my inner world; both the universe beyond the clouds as well as the very same universe that occupies our minds. As an Esthete, I have created my own visionary world, my own dream universe which I am charting. Indeed, I must admit, I live in a perpetual dream of art and creation.
