LAURA ALUNNI

I carry a memory from my childhood that I believe is the soul of this work. It is the memory of floating in the Adriatic Sea with my family, looking up at the sky through the water. The light would fracture into a thousand moving pieces, while beneath me, the current pulled with a silent, unstoppable force.

That feeling never left me. In Blue Life, the painted blue panels are my attempt to rebuild that fractured light, to create a mosaic that echoes the skin of the sea. But the true lifeblood of the piece is the Plexiglas. It is the invisible current I felt that day, the deep energy that pulses beneath the surface and animates everything.

The defining moment of this work is not about simple illumination; it is about suspension. That fleeting instant of being held between two worlds: the shimmering, fragmented surface above and the deep, powerful movement below. It is not a landscape. It is a portrait of water as memory, as current, as a living being. A quiet testament to the fact that what we see on the surface is always animated by a powerful, invisible force beneath.