Intimacy Series
Technique: watercolor, ink and paper cut on glass within a wooden box.
Theme: intimacy, refuge, femininity, nature and self-embrace.
Dimensions: variable (box format).
Year: 2025
Intimacy is a series that explores the body as a sacred place of return. Each box is a small sanctuary where the feminine figure gathers, listens, and embraces herself among living flowers: spaces of shelter where vulnerability transforms into root.
The works, created using the paper cut technique, combine the intimate gesture of drawing with the handcrafted construction of volume: layers of paper, color, and shadow that generate depth and silence. The interior of each box becomes an inner garden —a symbolic womb— where the feminine reconnects with her natural rhythm, far from the external gaze.
In Intimacy, nature is not a setting but an extension of the body: every flower, leaf, and stem responds to the emotional pulse of the figure. The wood, as living matter, frames this inner universe and turns it into an altar, a capsule of breath.
Intimacy I – The Rose That Guards the Dream
A body curled in a fetal position, wrapped by a circle of roses blooming at different stages. The skin merges with the petals: both express the same softness, the same defense. The red, pink, and gold of the flowers evoke the pulse of intimacy: the warmth of the inner refuge where the woman returns to herself. A metaphor of rest as a form of rebirth.
Intimacy II – The Passion of Withdrawal
The figure folds into herself, surrounded by passionflowers, poppies, and foliage that sprout like thoughts. Her embrace becomes a root, and the shadow covering her, a seed. In this piece, intimacy is understood as fertile ground: a place where vulnerability germinates. The inner garden, with its lights and darkness, reveals the alchemy between pain and beauty that sustains all life.
Intimacy III – The Breath of Water
Amid lotus leaves and flowers, the feminine figure embraces herself with serenity. The green, pink, and golden tones create an aquatic microcosm that breathes purity and containment. The lotus —an ancient symbol of the soul that blooms from the mud— becomes here a mirror of the inner process of healing: emerging cleansed from what once hurt. The work celebrates the act of holding oneself, of being one’s own mother.
