Salome carries out her mother's wish by requesting the head of the Baptist on a silver plate from Herod. The plate is the distinguishing object of Salome's detachment, whether it's to avoid getting her hands filthy or because the ghastly skull horrifies her, it symbolizes the dissociation between action and will.

Similarly, our mind's constant egoic and fickle creation urges the self to deform itself, and the submissive reaction sets the body itself on that platter.

In the same way, it happens that the ego asks our self to distort itself and the submissive response puts the individual himself on that plate.

The work is realized with the master "Frantumi" Aniello Smilzo. The surgical sign's new concentric and dilating forms blend into and overlap with the harmonic interweaving of the lines that identify the face's natural (anatomical) muscle bundles.

The shadow of the dancing lady in the backdrop is Salomè, a reference to that part of the psyche that is susceptible, sensitive, and insecure.

  

Salomé - journey to the center of self 

**The artwork originated from a desire to reflect man's inner battle, between doing and not doing, right and wrong, before making a significant decision... and the feelings that accompany it.**

**The dynamic shapes of the ribbons that pull the mirror are a metaphor for the battle between acting and resting: the expressions of the emotions experienced...**

  
_To be, or not to be, that is the question:_

_Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer_

_The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,_

_Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,_

_And by opposing end them?_

  

Hamlet | Mirror |

The piece lampoons the frenziness of our times... Everything must be completed as soon as possible... "Eat lightning bolts and generate lightning!" 

  

Tic Gnam | Clock |

How does our perspective of time change when we are immersed in a book?

Time dilates and narrows according to our feelings and we reach another dimension...

  

Paracrono | Book holder |

Dora Maar | Lamp |

Machine gun

The theme of the artwork is the “fading of the soul” of contemporary man, as he follows the impulses of modern society, losing his own abilities, his characteristics, his unique being.

The artwork consists of 1 + 11 inlaid wood panels, measuring 27 x 27 cm, each supported by a solid teak structure, on the bottom there is a mirror that allows the contemporary vision of the front and back of the inlays.

The first panel represents the man in his entirety. The other 11, with different textures, take up the same design but gradually lose parts of themselves, leaving room for emptiness.

Through a pivot, inside the structure, the observer can interact with the work as a complex system, rotating the panels to have different perspectives and reflecting himself in the mirror.

The artwork can be installed in two ways by positioning:

\- all 12 inlays in line, covering a surface of cm 360 x 35 x 20:

\- on two lines of 6 inlays each, covering a surface of cm 180 x 75 x 20.

  

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