Lapis Dianthus

Year: 2025

Material: Ceramic

In these ceramic works, the strength of nature meets the delicacy of art. The elegantly stylized carnations open into light corollas, made with the tempera of a colored pencil: their petals, jagged and lively, seem to hold the very breath of creation.
They are not supported by a simple stem, but by a hand-shaped pencil, a symbol of the artistic gesture that gives life to the flower.
Like a pencil that wears out, life also sharpens and blossoms, leaving a mark: a petal with every stroke of tempera.
It is a gesture that, while it is reduced, generates new beauty - like a thought that takes shape in the fragile blossoming of the flower. Each stroke is a step in time, a wearing out that sculpts and creates. And precisely in the moment in which it is worn out, the pencil continues to give shape: it lets new corollas bloom, a petal that is born with each tempera.
Each piece is glazed in energetic tones: a green stem with a red edge, a yellow one with a gold edge, or a blue one with a blue edge - colors that tell the story of the roots all the way to the very edges of the petals.
In this intertwining of matter, form and colour, the flower becomes a metaphor for an idea that blossoms. It is a thought that becomes visible, a poem that takes shape in the simplicity of a pencil and the lightness of a carnation: a fragment of beauty that defies time.