Together

Artist's Statement

We were not born with wings of our own… those who came before us wove flight into our skin. I carry the pulse of my homeland, of work, of families who faced hard times and still kept going, who walked with honesty and the dignity of moving forward without harming others. As I painted, I thought of them… I also thought of everyone who, by choice or necessity, has started over. Of those who have rebuilt themselves from scratch: sometimes in new lands, sometimes by becoming a different person without even leaving the place they have always known. At the same time, I was thinking of something bigger… of the idea that each of us is a complex and different universe… and yet, deep down, we are all the same. We are human, we are animals, we are finite. We go through life creating stories, carrying sorrows and joys… entire worlds that are almost never seen. There is so much to tell, so much to remember, so much that is lost over time without anyone noticing… I thought about how all those unfamiliar faces walking beside me in the street are entire universes, as complex as my own… it is incredible how little we can grasp of all the reality each of us holds… Millions of strangers full of dreams, trying to find their way, silent griefs no one else knows, small victories that sustain the impossible. So many stories, so many voices that deserve to be seen, heard and remembered. And in the end, however different we may seem, we are all the same… finite animals, human beings searching for a little meaning as we keep moving forward. And it is in that silent crowd, in those footsteps moving onward without looking at each other, that we sense something we all share: the certainty that we do not walk alone, that we are part of something greater, something that stays alive every time someone decides to try once more and keep going.