As I moved in the US for studying it happened I met some of Edward Hopper’s works, and from the very beginning I was fascinated by probably one of his least flashy skill, which is his use of color, which I found very functional, neat and unambiguous, although made of contrasts. In addition, his palette develops in an interesting way in the years, so that in the last paintings he firmly welcomes light and bright colors, which is something quite unpredictable from the earlier period.

This observation gave me the idea for Bright Shadows, which has no particular relation to Hopper’s Art but his use of color, since my work is exactly around movement and contrasting colors. My purpose in this case was to build a piece out of very diverse and contrasting elements in a single flow: a first, dark and anxiously iterative part (Oscuro), followed by a second part which is still dark but rich of movement (and trills!), and a third section, still and bright (Etereo). Then, a final long section follows, where the three elements, unlike Hopper, influence each others and alternate, fusing in aggregates of previous episodes: like trying to allude to a portrait of the figures I chose with few and clear elements.