-Work in Progress-

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This is the story of a boy with a tormented soul. He lives in the mountains, but his dream is being a fisherman. He decides to leave, taking a journey on a vessel that will bring him far away, on the other side of the world, to an unknown island full of fish, bright and colorful. But there his soul is reflected on the surrounding world that oscillates continuously between light and darkness. One day, he reaches a lighthouse lost in the sand dunes over the ocean. There he meet a guardian who constantly keeps the light of the lighthouse on everyday, teaching him how to keep the light on inside his soul without losing himself. Finally, through an act of conscience, the boy finds the strength and determination to make the light and the harmony re-emerge on the island and doing so, he takes back the balance in his soul, by acting on the external world. 

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This is a story written in Aotearoa. The illustrations are strongly influenced by the maori decoration. The thing that strikes me the most about this art is that there is an inversion between solids and voids, that is, the lines become empty spaces and, vice versa, the empty spaces between the lines become the full ones, assuming greater prominence precisely because of their function of "connection".

My characters are therefore those "voids" that have become full, those interstices, those triangles between the lines. They float on the page together with the signs, in search of an harmony in the whole. They reflect the movements in the story, which is also pervaded by a continuous oscillation between full and empty, as in the tides of the ocean, or as the transition between darkness and light, black and white.

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