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Q: Tell us about your photography and what first sparked an interest in this medium. Do you prefer the old school wet process or are you fully digital?

A: I think I’ve always enjoyed viewing art. I did come across some beautiful landscape and macro photography online on Deviantart as a preteen, and really loved collecting all of my favorite artwork to look at in my spare time. I think this sparked my interest in trying my hand initially at picking up a camera! It wasn’t until I decided to take photos of my friends, that I decided that portraiture was quite interesting.  I’m fully digital- I don’t know a thing about anything old-school! My first camera was digital, and it’s been this way for a while…but I think there is great beauty in older methods that are worth learning.

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Translation by Costanza Tagliaferri

Q: Tell us about your art technique and what first sparked an interest in this medium.

A: To achieve the sculptural and three-dimensional effect of the painting, all my work with tempera paint is on carved and assembled wooden pieces following a specific order of stratification. I usually paint on lime following the fundamental principles of ancient mural paintings; while the trim of each piece is in twenty-two carat gold leaf.

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Q: Tell us about your art technique and what first sparked an interest in this medium.

A: I´m a Photomanipulator, I work with real photos of real people, real objects, etc. I combine them, mix them, paint and draw on them… My tools are Photoshop and my Wacom Intuos4 tablet.

Q: Do you use any special materials, or do anything out of the ordinary when you are creating your art, If so could you tell us about it?
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Q: Tell us about your art technique and what first sparked
an interest in this medium.

A: I’ve always gravitated toward portraits – my four year old scribbles were mostly odd faces. But it was the style and thinking process behind the portraits that changed. I used to work mainly with pencil and my goal was recreating a photo as realistically as possible. Around age thirteen, I discovered Photoshop and my world changed. With more freedom to make mistakes (ctrl+alt+del needs to exist everywhere), I loosened up and began experimenting.
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Q: Could you describe the evolution of your pictorial style between byzantine icons and historical avant-garde?

A: I am not sure if it is possible to talk about ‘evolution’ in the style of my paintings. Apart from researching more sophisticated pictorial textures, technically speaking I have always been interested in bodies and portraits. Even today, I am loyal to my ‘first love’, the human figure. I keep interpreting it on one hand by taking inspiration from my cultural background (byzantine art and historical avant-garde); on the other, by everything I discover observing the world and the people surrounding me.

Q: Are you also inspired by other mediums to create your atmospheres and characters?

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