Every day, as soon as I get to the studio I fetch the camera that I have mounted on a special piece of equipment. Then I go onto the canal side in front of my studio, I put the camera down on the corner of the little wall and I take a photo of the same place. The frame captures the place where the water rises and falls according to the tide. All of the images taken over the period of a year are printed on cotton paper and kept inside a box that becomes the container of a year of time. The work springs from the association between what I see in my painting and what I see just outside my space. The stale water, which remains, which enters and exits from the lagoon rises and falls, rises and falls. It fills and spills over. It empties and reveals.

(Written in 2016)