Pământeşti brings together different artistic languages (acrylic painting on canvas, digital painting, photography, and body painting) in a fusion that seeks to give visual form to a mourning process. The initial intention was simply to stage body-painting sessions with models, but what emerged was something else.
The central motif consists of organic forms which, once photographed and digitally reinterpreted, evolve into other equally organic shapes, as if continuing indefinitely. Each piece is conceived as a territory, an island, a moment in time: specifically, the stages of trauma. I imagined this itinerary as a path toward healing. But healing took much longer than creating the series itself. For a long time, I even hesitated to write about it at all, ashamed to acknowledge its origin. Yet things are as they are, and I believe art gains strength precisely when it arises from lived experience, as it does here.
The title Pământeşti comes from romanian and refers to “earthly things”: the humble, everyday matters that both consume our lives and, at the same time, verge on insignificance.