La strada della vita

Title: La strada della vita

Technique: Alluchimia

Place and date of creation: Casalserugo 31/07/2023

Identification number: 9932362

Dimensions: 39 cm x 45 cm

Materials: Canvas and acrylics

Provenance: private collection of Nicola Bovo

DESCRIPTION: 

One day Nicola told me a story that one day he tried to paint a picture and he wanted to make it very colorful and he mixed different colors of paint on the canvas. And when mixing all the colors the canvas turned grey, dark brown and he couldn't paint his colorful picture. However, there was a white dot left in the middle, and that dot gave a subjective beauty to his painting, because he saw in it the hope that even something ugly can bring something beautiful.

That story inspired me and I told him I would paint a picture based on it. At this moment in my life, I was about to move to another country once again, and once again, to give new meanings to old concepts that were no longer the same and I decided to be inspired by the first painting created with this new technique that I created.

Afterwards, when I asked Nicola for more details of what he would like to see and what energy he would like to convey with this painting, he spoke of the road with streetlights and family.

It was then that I decided to apply a new technique with photoluminescent pigments, and this was the first painting that had three images in three different types of lighting: white light, black light (UV) and no light (in the dark).

Therefore, the family that walks this road of light as a symbol of the road of life is illuminated by lampposts that are signs that God sends to illuminate and guide our paths. And the family, they are the people who decide to walk together to make life easier and more beautiful.