Intellect. Artistry. The cultivated life.
My work lives at the intersection of intellect, artistry, and the cultivated life — expressed through research, writing, visual practice, and the art of living with intention.
Recent Project
Divenire
A series of six works inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses
From Projects & Curation
The Art of Becoming
What happens when an artwork leaves the studio and enters public life? Reflections on metamorphosis, artistic intention, and the encounters that gave Divenire new meaning.
Notes from The Salon
This October at The Salon
Witches, ghosts, monsters, markets, and the problem of what we choose to value. A short Spooktober series on enchantment, horror, nature, and modernity.
Culture, Considered
Essays on art, culture, performance, and creative practice
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Hunters, Witches, and Carbon Credits: The Cost of a World Without Magic
In Handel’s Alcina, a shattered urn brings an enchanted island to ruin, leaving behind a barren landscape where magic once flourished. Centuries later, we have become remarkably skilled at translating nature into measurable assets, ecosystem services, and carbon credits. But what happens when the world becomes legible only through its usefulness?
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Post-Human: Vessels for Cheating Death
Humanity has always built vessels to cheat death—from Dante’s immortal voices to Faust’s enchanted illusions. But what happens when memory no longer waits silently inside a book, portrait, or operatic score? As digital likenesses learn to speak back, adapt, and outlive us, the ancient dream of immortality acquires a distinctly modern complication: the ghost can…
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Divenire
A series of six works inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses 2–18 October 2026Vernissage — 2 OctoberGalleria Internazionale Area Contesa Arte Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Divenire explores transformation through a cycle of six works. Here, metamorphosis is not always graceful. Sometimes it is liberating; sometimes painful. At times, change feels close enough to see, yet impossible to reach. Each work…
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From Line to Layer: Designing an Intuitive Manga Workshop
How can manga drawing and watercolour feel approachable within a single beginner session? This project note traces the design of a 90-minute workshop that moves from wireframe and facial proportions to inking and transparent colour—giving participants both a finished character and a repeatable creative process.
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Space, Time, and Setlists
A live set is curated not only through song selection, but through timing, contrast, and attention to the room. This reflection explores how setlists are adapted to different venues, guiding audiences from shared musical memory into more intimate and original material.
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False Gods, Eternal City
In the Ovidian tradition, transformation is rarely an acquisition of new traits; it is a violent shedding of the unnecessary to reveal the inevitable.
Ideas are better in conversation.