return of the dream

Return of the Dream
Prints on Aluminum

       The intimate existential struggle is evident in the aluminum series Return of the Dream, a tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky film "The Mirror," which cites the poems of his father Arseny. The dramatic element arises from the apparent contrast in the human condition between soul and body, which are nevertheless not inseparable. The concept of an absolute Time is highlighted, in which childhood and old age merge and merge. And it is poetry and art that recapture that mythical and dreamlike place where nothing is lost and everything is realized because it has already
been like this before, as in the wonderful words of Andrei Tarkovsky:

“I often dream;  used to it. As soon as I see the wooden walls darkened by time, and the half-open door that opens in the darkness of the entrance hall, I already know, even in sleep, that it is only a dream, and my irrepressible joy fades as I wait to awaken.
Sometimes something happens that makes me stop dreaming of the house, the pine trees of my childhood… Then nostalgia assails me, and I begin to anxiously await the return of the dream, in which”

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