Portraits
This series of contemporary cameos reimagines the olive tree as a subject of portraiture through the language of trace and imprint. At life scale, leaves and slender branches appear like fossilized memories — delicate presences suspended between the living and the remembered.
Alongside these direct impressions, photographic traces of olive leaves, branches, and fruit emerge on porcelain surfaces, expanding the cameo into a space where memory is both touched and seen. The cameo, traditionally a carved portrait, becomes here a surface of encounter, where identity is held not in a face but in the mark of a landscape.
Each piece acts as a small relic: a fragment of botanical life transformed into memory, carrying the intimacy of touch and the quiet permanence of a fossil. These works speak of time layered into matter — of what once grew, what was witnessed, and what remains. Within Tale of Place, the olive tree emerges as a living archive, connecting body, land, and lineage across distance.
Tale Of Place: Roccella Jonica 2026
Alongside these direct impressions, photographic traces of olive leaves, branches, and fruit emerge on porcelain surfaces, expanding the cameo into a space where memory is both touched and seen. The cameo, traditionally a carved portrait, becomes here a surface of encounter, where identity is held not in a face but in the mark of a landscape.
Each piece acts as a small relic: a fragment of botanical life transformed into memory, carrying the intimacy of touch and the quiet permanence of a fossil. These works speak of time layered into matter — of what once grew, what was witnessed, and what remains. Within Tale of Place, the olive tree emerges as a living archive, connecting body, land, and lineage across distance.
Tale Of Place: Roccella Jonica 2026
