Dance: an invisible thread
There are kinds of grief we rarely name.
Not the kind that comes from a sudden rupture or an obvious loss, but from a slow, quiet distance from something that once felt like home.
Dance was once my native language.
Before words, there was the body. The barre. The music. The discipline. The repetition. The sense of belonging to something precise and alive.
Hokusai at Palazzo Bonaparte: where beauty suspends time
The colors and expression of this great artist, enhanced by the beauty of the Palazzo Bonaparte, left a deep impression on me. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful exhibitions I have ever had the chance to see.
From Mount Fuji to the black hair of Japanese women dressed in silk kimonos, as graceful as the peony petals he paints, Hokusai reveals both a prolific body of work and an exceptional level of quality.
Friendship: an enduring art
A personal reflection on friendship, written between memory and observation.
I wanted to write about a subject that has long accompanied me: friendship. It is a vast notion, shifting in form from one life to another. What follows is not a definition, but a way of looking at this bond, and at how it has quietly shaped my own path.
Lou Andreas-Salomé: Freedom of existence
A woman who defied her time.
Lou Andreas-Salomé was one of the first women recognized as a major intellectual force of her time. She was rare, singular, rejecting the norms imposed on women, and embodied a freedom of thought that allowed her to engage on equal footing with the great minds of her era.
Dance: An Opening
I chose André Derain’s La danse to open my blog because this painting represents the universal force that binds us together and mirrors my passion for movement.
It marks a pivotal moment in the early 1900s Fauvism, when painting broke away from simply reproducing reality and allowed color to express a deeper truth — the truth of emotion. Fauvism shattered naturalism and sought instead to convey a vital, almost cosmic energy.
Here, the canvas is no longer a depiction of the world, but a field of vibrating color, a sensitive pulse.