Desire and Disillusion was the title of the show in which these ink and watercolor drawings on grey paper were featured, in a parlor club in Manhattan.

Yet most of them were not born in the city. I created them during a retreat in the mountains of West Virginia — a necessary escape, because sometimes New York does not allow space for production, only for movement. In the quiet of the mountains, the images began to surface.

Many of these works subtly conceal quotations from European Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces. Rather than copying them, I gently reworked their myths and dominant themes — desire, fall, redemption, temptation — filtering them through a contemporary sensibility.

The result is a dialogue between eras: old symbols breathing in a new atmosphere.

Desire and Disillusion reflects that oscillation — between aspiration and awakening, between the grandeur of inherited myths and the fragile clarity of the present moment.