Welcome, and thank you for joining me today. My name is Luana and I live and work in Switzerland.
I am a mixed media artist drawn to the spaces where transformation begins — where ink spreads around shapes, color dissolves into possibility, and something unexpected starts to take form.
My work is grounded in a process of exploration. I use Indian ink, soft pastels, photography-based digital media, software code to investigate ideas of mutation, causality, and emergence. I am fascinated by how things evolve — how one mark can lead to another, how materials interact in ways that mirror the unpredictable systems of the natural world.
Ink offers structure and flow, a kind of quiet authority. Pastels, with their softness and volatility, bring contrast — a sense of impermanence. My digital work begins with photography — often capturing subtle textures, natural forms, or fleeting moments — which I then deconstruct, layer, and reimagine as part of a broader visual dialogue. This allows me to expand the material world into new, abstract dimensions.
For me, each piece is a living record of change — less a finished object than a fossil of process. I follow the materials, letting them guide me. What emerges is often something I didn’t plan: forms that carry their own internal logic, rhythms that reflect larger forces at play. Can we allow them to be part of our reality?
What happens next?
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