Contrary to some religious traditions, I see heaven and
hell as states of mind rather than physical places. You
carry heaven or hell inside you and they reflect in your environment, and consequently to the rest of the world.
In my pieces I tried to evoke not only personal
occurrences that brought the experience of hell very
close – like emotional pain, despair, and terror - but
also some reflections about the meaning and
achievement of “heaven” according to my own
perceptions. As I constantly do in my work, the figures
are depicted as religious icons in order to offer a
counterpoint to the human condition, where good and
evil amalgamate and become two faces of a same
coin. The demonic and the angelic are inside us, in
a perpetual dance of creation and destruction.