Sabrina Richiedei
The desert is a symbol of essentiality and transformation. It is a borderland, where matter is stripped to the bone and the horizon becomes absolute. The wind sculpts the dunes as time shapes memory, erasing and rewriting ceaselessly. It is both absence and potential, a void that can be either loss or revelation. In its apparent stillness, everything moves: the sun shifts the shadows, the sand flows, life adapts or vanishes. The desert is the eternal cycle of erasure and rebirth. Its ambivalence is evident, starting with the image of solitude an arid, desolate land and the undifferentiation rediscovered through spiritual experience, much like the sea.
2025, 122 x 91,5 cm, acrylic on canvas
Appears as a symbolic expression of the multiple states of being and is a symbol of the persistence of desire, whatever its form.
2024, 120 x 80 cm, acrylic on canvas
The term comes from Chthon, the Greek name of the Earth, mother of the Titans and home of the dead and living: the low opposite to the high, the earth in its dark and primitive appearance. The danger can be both internal and external in the struggle between life and death, always closely related. It appears as a prelude to decisive events, in the form of unforeseen difficulties, punishments, terror, as opposite pole to that of feelings of security, strength, optimism. The unconscious appearance of ctonio is reflected on everything that appears to be fearsome because of its hidden, unexpected, sudden and violent character.
2024, 140 x 70 cm, acrylic on canvas
It is the symbol of the transformation of the state of consciousness; whatever the level of elevation, the elixir assures its eternity. Substance of magical virtues or in the negative aspect confers eternal oblivion.
2024, 140 x 70 cm, acrylic on canvas
Story of the creation of the world, is the model of every kind of making, every cultural area has its theories and its myths about the origin of the universe or the birth of the world. The break-in of being from nothing or the sudden appearance of the cosmos cannot constitute the object of a story because they are, by definition, without witnesses. The only perceptible reality is the fruit of creation. By the very necessity of expression, it tends to temporalize what escapes time for the very necessity of existence, constituting the model according to which men conceive the unfolding of energy and according to which they strive to realize their projects.
2024, 80 x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas
The abyss indicates what is bottomless, the world of infinite depths or elevations, shapeless states of existence. The abyss evokes the immense and powerful unconscious; it appears as an invitation to explore the depths of the soul to free the ghosts and untie the knots.
2024, 80 x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas
Conceptually Creation is a rite of rebirth and metamorphosis starting from the inspiration of the butterfly, symbol of the soul and associated with the image of flame in many cultures.
The flame is a symbol of purification, enlightenment and spirituality. Extremely connected to spirit, transcendence and evolution.
The cell forms tell about creation and the expressions that emerge from the depths of the unconscious.
Appearances have only an illusory or fleeting value as opposed to the unity of being.
2024, 100 x 150 cm, acrylic on canvas
Zuihitsu 随 筆 literally 'follow the brush', means a Japanese literary genre composed of personal essays and fragmented ideas that flow without interruption.
My intention is not to imitate nature, nor to reproduce the external aspect of the forms, but to let the brush be guided by the spirit that animates the phenomena and its own activity.
Man lives in symbiosis with nature, observes natural phenomena, recognizes the cycles of the seasons and feels to reflect the rhythm, of which he identifies the cyclicity, therefore the order.
2024, 120 x 100 cm, acrylic on canvas
2023, 120 x 100 cm, acrylic on canvas
