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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The Universal Language
At La Sapienza, a transdisciplinary gathering revealed the curious paradox of a universal academic language. Across economics, mathematics, public health and political science, quantitative methods offered remarkable fluency, though not always genuine exchange. A reflection on disciplinary habits, intellectual curiosity, and the questions that remain unasked when everyone speaks alike.
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The Paradox of Novelty
Academic ideas travel through generations, but intellectual inheritance does not always reward originality. Revisiting my research on academic genealogy, this essay reflects on mentorship, interdisciplinary work, peer networks, and the uneasy bargain between producing novel knowledge and remaining legible within an increasingly competitive academic system.
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The Joy of Painting en Plein Air
Step beyond the studio and into the garden. In this essay on creative ritual, an outdoor easel, paint-stained linens, and shifting light reveal the quiet beauty of letting go. Discover how surrendering to nature’s unpredictable rhythms—wind, sun, and all—transforms both the artistic process and the final painting.
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The Eroticism of Terror
Horror has always had one commandment, but it has never been obeyed. The women at the centre of this essay —Christine, Elisa, Ofelia, Belle, the Governess at Bly —understand something about that arithmetic. What we have been calling romance, they have known as something older and stranger: the horror of desire that knows exactly what…
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Still Green: A Roman Table in Early Autumn
A Roman table in early autumn refuses to choose between seasons; it holds both. From vine-leaf glazes to hot chicken broth and spring blooms in the wrong month, we take a seat at a table merely in transit.
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The Art of Becoming: Reflections on Divenire
A silent meditation on the nature of transformation, mapped in the bleeding lines of ink and watercolour. The journey of Divenire reminds us that the artwork, like life itself, undergoes its own perpetual metamorphosis under the gaze of the world.
Ideas are better in conversation.