Based in the Berkshires, I look to create watercolor and ink paintings inspired by movement, memory, and the places we carry within us. My work blends geometries, pathways, and shifting shapes to explore how our experiences connect and change over time. Through color and gesture, I aim to build quiet, abstract landscapes that invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and find their own meaning.
A recent and formative source of inspiration is Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. The influence lies not only in the book’s imagined journey through fifty-five cities, but in the Oulipian constraints Calvino used to structure and arrange the novel - systems that generate variation, connection, and rhythm. This series follows my own passage through these cities, with each painting developed within a fixed set of constraints around palette and layout. Each city contains traces of others, forming networks and suggesting a shared urban logic: the idea that every city reflects a single place. To emphasize the ethereal and temporary nature of such a journey, I titled the series Lalage, a city mentioned only in passing.
Diomira | Memory 1.1 | What remains after arrival
Isidora | Memory 2.1 | The city remembered from elsewhere
Dorothea | Desire 1.1 | What the traveler expected
Zaira | Memory 3.1 | Streets made of time
Anastasia | Desire 2.1 | What draws us in
Tamara | Signs 1.1 | Nothing what it seems
Zora | Memory 4.1 | A place that cannot change
Despina | Desire 3.1 | Seen from land, seen from sea
Zirma | Signs 2.1 | Memory as pattern
Isaura | Thin 1.1 | What sustains us unseen
Maurilia | Memory 5.2 | Before and after
Fedora | Desire 4.2 | All cities imagined
Zoe | Signs 3.2 | Where everything could be something else
Zenobia | Thin 2.2 | Raised by necessity
Euphemia | Trading 1.2 | Stories traded at night
Zobeide | Desire 5.3 | The pursuit that makes the city
Hypatia | Signs 4.3 | Order undone
Armilla | Thin 3.3 | The city without walls
Chloe | Trading 2.3 | Possible encounters
Valdrada | Eyes 1.3 | The city and its double
Olivia | Signs 5.4 | The city admired from afar
Sophronia | Thin 4.4 | Permanent and temporary
Eutropia | Trading 3.4 | The city that moves
Zemrude | Eyes 2.4 | The city shaped by glance
Aglaura | Names 1.4 | The story told about a place
Octavia | Thin 5.5 | Held together by trust
Ersilia | Trading 4.5 | Relations left behind
Baucis | Eyes 3.5 | A city that doesn't touch
Leandra | Names 2.5 | Voices in the walls
Melania | The Dead 1.5 | The city that never finishes speaking
Esmeralda | Trading 5.6 | Many ways through
Phyllis | Eyes 4.6 | Remebered by walking
Pyrrha | Names 3.6 | After the flood
Adelma | The Dead 2.6 | Those we recognize
Eudoxia | The Sky 1.6 | The rug beneath the city
Moriana | Eyes 5.7 | Front and back
Clarice | Names 4.7 | Fragments learning to persist
Eusapia | The Dead 3.7 | Life below the surface
Beersheba | The Sky 2.7 | Heaven above, refuse below
Leonia | Continuous 1.7 | Yesterday beneath today
Irene | Names 5.8 | Seen from the edge
Argia | The Dead 4.8 | Buried under itself
Thekla | The Sky 3.8 | Always under construction
Trude | Continuous 2.8 | Everything the same
Olinda | Hidden 1.8 | Growth without awareness
Laudomia | The Dead 5.9 | Lives lived elsewhere
Perinthia | The Sky 4.9 | Built according to the stars
Procopia | Continuous 3.9 | Overcrowded even in absence
Raissa | Hidden 2.9 | Happiness persists
Andria | The Sky 5.9 | Aligned with the cosmos
Cecilia | Continuous 4.9 | What the city replaces
Marozia | Hidden 3.9 | The city that devours itself
Penthesilea | Continuous 5.9 | Always arriving
Theodora | Hidden 4.9 | The city after animals
Berenice | Hidden 5.9 | Justice concealed within injustice
55 cities, 11 themes, 9 chapters