As a visual artist, I often reflect on the question: Where does creativity come from? For me, it has never been about a single moment of revelation but rather a mosaic of experiences, emotions, memories and influences that have shaped how I see and interpret the world. My artistic journey is deeply intertwined with the things I’ve seen, felt, and admired throughout my life.

Early Beginnings: The Seed of Creativity

Looking back, I realize that my earliest influences stem from childhood. The textures, colors, the sounds and forms of the natural world played a significant role in shaping my aesthetic sensibilities. The way sunlight filtered through trees, the rhythm of waves on the shore, or the intricate patterns of leaves fascinated me long before I could articulate why. This innate love for nature’s design continues to echo in my work, often as a subtle homage to organic forms and natural rhythms.

The Power of Visual Storytelling

As I grew older, visual storytelling became another essential source of inspiration. I was captivated by films, graphic novels, and photography that didn’t just depict beauty but conveyed emotion and narrative. Certain directors, like [Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles and Federico Fellini], or artists, such as [Caravaggio, Salvador Dalì, Raffaello, Egon Schiele, Vincent Van Gogh and M.C. Escher], taught me how light, shadow, and composition could evoke powerful feelings without a single word. These lessons influenced my use of contrasts, negative space, and symbolism in my art.

Personal Experiences: Turning Emotion Into Art

I remember some time ago, during a job interview with a renowned company in the VR & NFT sector in my country, the recruiter asked me what strategy I used to produce creativity. I was taken aback by the question because I had never thought of the creative process as a mechanical system that would generate endless works at the push of a button, so after a moment of hesitation, I replied that I listened to a lot of music to spark creativity. However, the recruiter seemed far more perplexed by my answer than I had been by his question. I realized that we had two completely different meanings for creativity.

Art, for me, is inseparable from emotion. My creative process often begins with personal experiences (moments of joy, heartbreak, solitude, or wonder). Translating these emotions into visual language is both a challenge and a catharsis. Sometimes, a single memory or fleeting feeling becomes the seed for an entire project, and the process of creating allows me to make sense of my inner world. As I mentioned earlier, music plays a fundamental role.

A Work in Progress

As an artist, I know my journey of inspiration is never complete. Every new experience, whether it’s a book I read, a place I visit, or an artist I discover, adds another thread to the fabric of my creativity. I see my work as a reflection of my ongoing growth not only as an artist but as a human being.

In the end, my art is not just a product of influences but a dialogue between what I’ve absorbed and how I choose to interpret it and propose it. And that’s the beauty of creating: the opportunity to transform the world around us into something new, something uniquely our own.

Symbolism, Alchemy, Esotericism, Quantum Physics.

The other side of me that I bring to life in my works stems from an unbridled curiosity for psychology, symbolism, the alchemical arts, the esoteric world and the laws of physics. 

                                  Atalanta Fugiens, Michael Maier, Emblem 42, 1617.

SOME ADVICES

• C. G. Jung (everything)
• Chivalric Narratives
• Splendor Solis
• Aurora Consurgens
• Virgil
• Confessio Fraternitatis
• Paradise Lost, John Milton
• Thomas Aquinas
• Atalanta Fugiens
• Mutus Liber
• Hinduism
• Giordano Bruno
• Water Memory
• Pistis Sophia
• Pier Paolo Pasolini (Films and Writings)
• Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
• Waking Life, Richard Linklater
• I Ching
• Turba Philosophorum
• Horace
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• Teatro Valdoca
• Synchronicity and Entanglement
• Oswald Wirth
• The Signs And Symbols Of Primordial Man, Albert Churchward
• Emerald Tablet
• The Egyptian Book of the Dead, E. A. Wallis Budge
• Pythagoras
• Marcello Bacci
• The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
• Societas Raffaello Sanzio
• Emilio Del Giudice
• Franco Battiato (Songs and Interviews)
• Alchemy : The Medieval Alchemists and Their Royal Art, Johannes Fabricius
• The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus
• Image of Criminal Man, Cesare Lombroso
• Life After Life, Raymond A. Moody Jr
• Georges Ivanovič Gurdjieff
• Nag Hammadi Codex