A high ink drawing of the gardens of the Villa d’Este, with its majestic eucalyptus trees from which a turret of the Roman villa emerges.

This informal, bushy vision of tall trees rising to the sky occupies almost all the space on the sheet. Only the pool in the foreground and the turret in the middle of the upper part of the drawing, which is placed in perspective, constitute areas of rectilinear graphics, signs of a “civilised” world.

Even though they are in the minority, the symmetrical positions of these two buildings structure the rest of the drawing and divide the trees into two large leafy masses. They leave open between them a path that rises towards a mysterious place whose access requires crossing an almost “virgin forest”.

Transforming the realistic vision of a beautiful viewpoint into a structured and abundant reverie is the practice of an artist who is concerned with opening up paths, creating resonances and establishing even the most luxuriant graphics in a solidity of form.