I am a multidisciplinary artist creating works that contend with themes of grotesque theatricality, camp and remembrance.

I am strongly influenced by the customs and traditions of my land, Sicily, and often the places and experiences of my childhood serve as inspiration for the realisation of my works. Colour, sound, plus the dialect and mythology that are integral to Sicilian heritage are essential elements for my research that I try to preserve and protect through my works. Yet, a queer narrative pulsates through the stories and symbols, whereby the rampant machismo inflected within the strong Catholic culture of Italy its thwarted and disrupted by the depiction of hyper-masculine figures engaging in homoerotic scenes, with feminised features in my work. This is a personal procedure that stages a dialogue between elements of the past and the present which become intertwined with a grotesque theatricality, grappling with the history of tradition, and the possibility of my body as an insurgent to it.

I am often influenced by the writings of Giovanni Verga and Pirandello, where memory appears to be a significant process as a way of structuring the world. I attempt to make work as part of a process of self-re-discovery; it is an attempt to collect the pieces of a past that has traces in the present in the contemporary landscape of an accelerating world. Loss within my work provokes a tragedy, yet the hilarity of campness encourages humour and vitality.

My art-making processes are often influenced by my past education and work within animation and drawing, whereby motion and character-design are utilised to create captivating compositions and silhouettes.