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My recent work revolves around the idea of the door as a symbolic, emotional, and spiritual threshold. It is inspired by the universe of The Neverending Story, by the German author Michael Ende, and the film adaptation (1984, directed by Wolfgang Petersen), where the hero’s journey is understood as a series of inner trials: facing fear, questioning identity, and learning to release control. In this context, doors are not merely narrative elements, but initiatory symbols of transformation.

The door appears in these works as something alive, closer to a sensation than to an object. It does not simply separate spaces, but connects states of consciousness: moments of change, silences before transformation. It is a threshold where the visible and the invisible touch, where the real and the symbolic exist in tension.

The desert, a recurring presence, functions as a space of emptiness and clarity. A place where everything is simplified and, at the same time, intensified. Within this landscape, guardian figures, masks, and arcane signs emerge, speaking of fear, protection, and what arises just before change. They are not characters, but presences that inhabit the edge.

The mirror introduces a more intimate and psychological dimension. It does not merely reflect an image, but an uncomfortable truth: the distance between what we believe we are and what we truly are. In this gesture, the work becomes more introspective, quieter, and more direct.

In other pieces, the door appears as a paradox. It does not open through force or intention, but when control is no longer necessary. In that moment, the threshold ceases to be an object and becomes an experience: a passage that is not always understood, but is nonetheless recognized.

The keys, recurring throughout the works, function as an ambiguous symbol. Traditionally associated with access and control, here they also introduce doubt. They do not always open; sometimes they simply suggest the possibility of a passage, or the question of whether there is anything that truly needs to be opened.

Taken together, these works do not describe a linear journey, but a continuous state of transition. The door is not a destination, but a constant presence: something that emerges whenever something within us is about to transform.