“Through ancestral patterns, I search for the universal face of humanity.”

My rug portraits explore the idea of an inner garden, an intimate topography where plant motifs seem to surface from the model’s skin, composing an inner paradise. Inheriting the carpet tradition, I use the central medallion as a symbol of water, of a vital source: it irrigates and organizes the floral motifs that bloom around the face, creating an emotional cartography. I seek to reveal the model’s inner garden, to look within, tend it, and let it blossom. It is that quiet flowering, patiently cultivated, that invites a subtle, unmistakable emotion to arise.
I primarily work with female figures in homage to the weavers: in the history of textile design, it is often women who carry and transmit these patterns, and I seek to recall and celebrate this lineage.

“I paint the invisible heritage we carry beneath our skin.”

My process is long and iterative: photo shoots, sketching on my tablet, then hundreds of compositional iterations until achieving the perfect harmony between rug, portrait and emotion. Then comes the act of painting directly onto the actual rug, the final gesture that condenses all the research. Today I expand this vocabulary by exploring new subjects such as animals, a wild continuation of the vegetal motif, as well as silhouettes and drapery that question identity and memory. These works aim to evoke an emotion both intimate and universal: the wonder of discovering one’s own inner garden.

“Each portrait is a bridge between memory, identity, and the sacred.”