The works presented on this site are part of the project Quod quaeris ars, a research that brings together mathematical structures, image and music.
Many of these works originate from the exploration of fractal forms, where an initial structure gradually branches out and generates new possibilities. This movement of opening — from unity to bifurcation — can also be seen as a metaphor for life: the moment when a single direction becomes choice, freedom and transformation.
In this space, image and sound do not aim to illustrate an idea, but to make its movement perceptible: a process in which visual and musical forms progressively unfold, revealing tensions, balances and new directions.
Notes frome the Creative Process
The process almost always begins with the birth of an image.
Each image is the result of many explorations: small changes in parameters generate different forms, often unexpected. In this sense the work resembles musical research, where complex and unpredictable developments can arise from just a few initial ideas.
Then comes the musical part. I build it by letting myself be guided by the title suggested by the image, or simply by the visual sensation it evokes.
Finally there is the moment of encounter: images and sounds intertwine and begin to dialogue. Sometimes everything works immediately; at other times small changes, adjustments and deviations emerge.
In the first video I show a very simple example: the construction of a circle with a few drawings inside it.
I often work at the piano, in a fairly traditional way: paper, pencil and eraser. At other times I start directly from the computer.
The final image of the video grows from that initial circle through three further transformations.
It does not yet have a title. It will receive one when its moment arrives.
The Circle (2026)
In the second video I highlight the creation of Dragon with Doe Eyes.
The video is titled The Wanderer. For me it represents the journey that begins each time I embark on a new path: always the same and always different.
In the music as well I tried to express this idea: a melodic element that returns again and again, but each time with a different musical “color”—sometimes almost imperceptibly, other times more clearly.
The Wanderer (2025)
Each image is a point of balance between mathematics, imagination and listening.
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