Landfalls
This section of the blog is devoted to travel photography and to encounters with places experienced over time. Here I gather images taken during journeys, urban explorations, and moments of pause: visual fragments shaped by an attentive gaze toward spaces, atmospheres, and the traces left by the passage of people. These photographs capture fleeting details, subtle interactions of light, textures, and shadows, allowing the observer to notice what often goes unseen. They form a personal visual diary, documenting the quiet beauty of liminal spaces and the stories embedded within urban and domestic environments.
The images often emerge from liminal places: monuments and buildings framed from below, terraces, side streets, timeworn architecture, and quiet corners of the city. They are spaces suspended between presence and memory, where the urban or domestic landscape resonates with echoes of the lives that inhabit it. Each photograph becomes a pause, a small moment of reflection, inviting the viewer to slow down, immerse in the atmosphere, and observe the hidden rhythms of the spaces around us.
Nazzano, March 2026
A village in Upper Lazio, Nazzano is home to the Museo del Fiume and a 10th-century medieval castle
On the edge of a new era
An embroidery on a pinhole photograph becomes the starting point for a reflection on crossing into a new era
Lumos!
Prosperity, energy, and memory: thoughts on joy as a source of abundance and Troppa grazia Sant’Antonio at the ṬILISMĀN group show in Perugia
And courage
Reflections on rising poverty in Italy, the silent struggles of the most vulnerable, and how art can awaken awareness in difficult times
Sad guru anxiety
A solitary woman watches trains rush past her home, listens to a rose that speaks, and drifts into reflections on aging
We are such stuff as dreams are made on
A vivid dream of mirrors, parties, and reflections on life beyond death. A symbolic, emotional, and conscious journey through the dreams
Then I’ll tell you
Family memories, freelance life, and quiet resilience in a changing Italy, between uncertainty and survival
The kindest of our enemies
The voice of a grandfather, World War II in Naples, and the threshold between past and present, stitched together with needle and thread
Without a net
In a world of speed and hyperconnection, slowing down becomes a radical act. What if hands, not algorithms, could lead us back to meaning
Napoli, March 2025
A visual journey through the elegance of historic palaces and the contrasts between the chaos and beauty of Naples
Tied up
The story of a soul so desperate to put down roots that it can’t see reality, caught between emotional illusions and hidden violence
What I do
In the waiting room of a public office, the narrator steals scraps of other people’s conversations and spins them into life
Things for making things
A workshop for those who want to slow down and create vessels that tell their own story. Hands-on making, memory, and embroidery
Entanglement
Embroidery on photography: a project on Rome’s Borgate, blending analog images, collective energy, and hand-sewn memory
Rear window
From a creative coming out to a first contemporary embroidery, through the Valtopina Biennial and current projects
Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil
A childhood memory turns into a letter to an absent mother: memory, illness, love, and the struggle to stay human in an age of collapse
The prestigious rooza-booza counter of opportunities
An unstoppable emotional current between wild life and reflections on memory, acceptance, and the cost of balance
And so
A reflection on the deep shift in making art: from aesthetics to message, from control to intuitive freedom.
The elephant man
Emotions, fate, needle and thread woven into contemporaneity in a deeply personal embroidery shown for the first time
Mother
A haunting walk on burning sand, woven with memory, unconditional love, and the weight of a mother–daughter bond beyond all rules
Scattered order
A year of embroidery experiments with reclaimed materials, vintage threads, and creative exploration — walking the line between art and craft
You can tell from the hands
A moving reflection on aging, pain, and the fragile beauty of life. A daughter confronts her mother’s decline, in the face of inevitable loss
Don’t be food
A journey through childhood memories, majestic trees, and embroideries inspired by nature. A post about belonging, salvation, and inspiration
The king of the world
How artists unconsciously absorb and multiply energy, scattering it everywhere; an embroidery inspired by Javier Marín
Parallel worlds
Small embroideries fused with found objects, crafted to be touched, listened to, hidden, or carried close every day
Everyone dies of themselves
Mortality, water, a photograph, a dream, blood, the stomach and the heart on a suspended island — caught between desire and the wound
Lights off at home in the morning
Winter light, silence, and embroidery. The gentle strength of daily constancy as both an artistic and spiritual practice of grounding
There is no spoon
From the memory of a giraffe to the vision of an elephant fetus: embroidery as meditation and a gateway to the magic of possibility
Taking control, losing control
When the needle guides the hand and the mind steps back, intuitive embroidery emerges: rust stains, archipelagos, and pure flow
Being part of the sea
A Pacific kelp, an old kitchen towel, and a love for the sea: my new embroidery is born from the desire to breathe the blue and belong to it
The power of discomfort
Art doesn’t grow from perfection: reflections on discomfort and the creative power of imperfection in embroidery and in life
The charm of impermanence
The beauty of the fragile—art that unravels yet endures. Reflections on antique fabrics, embroidery, impermanence, poetry, and resilience
There are more things in heaven and earth
Art is a wild creature, impossible to tame. Reflections on raw creative energy, impermanence, and the refusal to conform
Human, all too human
A raw reflection on art and identity: between stitches, wounds, and truth, the journey of an artist who has always lived outside the mold
Ophelia
In a timeless place, a woman plans a brief journey. Gentle mist, suspended dialogues, and free will frame her path
Everything is embroidered
A reflection on control, chance, and the deep meaning held within embroidery art — threads that capture memory, emotion, and time
I wanted to create, but there was wind
The therapeutic power of embroidery: a journey through sustainability, imperfection, inner voices, and the urgency to create no matter what
Grounded
Welcome to this in-between place. Here I write about art — mine and others’ — and anything else that insists on surfacing
Narni, September 2017
The unique allure of liminal spaces from past eras, still imbued with the energy of those who once lived within them
Naples, December 2016
An intimate journey through Naples, a city of contrasts and marvels. Photographs tell the story of my hometown — loved and feared
Rome, October 2003
An intimate, decaying liminal space: a rooftop in Rome’s San Giovanni district, a refuge for meditation and fleeting glimpses of everyday life