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Printmaking allows me to interpret the memories, landscapes and places that I carry with me. Through the expressive language that the craft offers, I can work directly with my hands to shape and create anew these memories and personal moments while bringing them into the present. These places and instances bring me to spaces that are different from where I am now, and even though they are part of the past, they are still important because I have known them. I have lived them. And they have become part of me, like every ink layer becomes part of the final print. The exploration of my landscapes, histories and meaningful places is what drives my artistic practice. I want to express them not necessarily how they looked at a certain time, but to create them again now that they are becoming a memory. The longing feeling for a familiar place that is starting to soften with time or special locations that are slowly changing are the things that I try to homage, silent testimonies of my own journey. Places that will disappear and that keep changing in ways I can’t control, but that remain a treasure for me because I have loved them. Intimate trees, landscapes and views that represent sensations that are softening through the years, but that at the same time are still present. They will always be. Similarly to the ink layers of the prints, memories are made of moments, feelings and sensations that make each other and that build each other. Moment by moment, layer after layer.