Pământeşti combines different artistic languages, canvas painting, digital painting, photography, and body painting, in a blend that seeks to give visual form to a mourning process. The initial intention was simply to carry out body painting sessions with models, but what emerged was this. The core motif consists of organic shapes which, once photographed and digitally reinterpreted, evolve into other equally organic forms —as if continuing indefinitely. Each piece is conceived as a territory, an island, a phase in time: specifically, the stages of trauma. It is an itinerary that I initially imagined as a path toward healing. But healing took much longer than creating the series.

For a long time, I even hesitated to write about all this. I felt ashamed to acknowledge its starting point. But things are as they are, and I believe that art draws its strength precisely when it is rooted in real lived experience, as is the case with my work.

The title, Pământeşti, comes from Romanian and refers to “earthly things” —those humble, grounded matters that, in one sense, consume our lives, and in another, mean almost nothing at all.