Where My Connection to Giallo Symbolism Begins
When I think about the visual language that shaped my emotional imagination, the giallo tradition is one of the first to surface. Not because of its violence or shock, but because of its psychological atmosphere — the colour tension, the obsessive detail, the feeling that something symbolic is pulsing beneath every frame. In my own work, I don’t recreate the genre. Instead, I draw from its emotional architecture: the way an object becomes a clue, the way a colour becomes a warning, the way a single eye can hold an entire narrative. My feminine surrealism carries that same inner electricity, but softened, ritualistic, more introspective than confrontational.
How Flowers Become Psychological Evidence
Flowers appear often in my art, but they rarely behave like botanical illustrations. Under the influence of giallo symbolism, they feel more like carriers of emotional clues. A petal twisted into an impossible shape suggests discomfort that cannot be verbalised. A bloom glowing in acidic pink becomes a sign of emotional heat. A stem bending sharply within a soft-black space behaves like a fragment of memory trying to reveal itself. My flowers are not gentle ornaments. They are psychological evidence — symbols that emerge when something internal demands to be acknowledged. They bloom at the edges of intuition, where beauty and unease coexist.
Eyes as Emotional Surveillance
The eyes in my work — sometimes oversized, sometimes fragmented, sometimes multiplied — are born from the same instinct that animates giallo close-ups: the idea that the eye is not passive, but active, observing, exposing, insisting. In my feminine surrealism, the eye does not threaten; it reveals. It reflects emotional states that are difficult to name. An eye surrounded by glowing petals becomes an oracle. An eye floating in darkness becomes a moment of sudden self-recognition. An eye split in two becomes a dialogue between desire and fear. These symbolic eyes are not spectators. They are participants in the ritual, mirrors of the psyche.
Colour as Emotional Suspense
The giallo tradition taught me that colour can carry tension long before narrative does. In my art, colour becomes emotional suspense. Acidic green feels like a premonition. Soft black behaves like a room holding its breath. Luminous red reads like an emotional warning. Hot pink feels like a confession that refuses to stay still. By mixing these tones with botanical forms and ritual marks, I create atmospheres where the colour itself feels alive, almost sentient. My palette carries the tension of revelation — the moment before something inner crystallises.
Ritual Marks and Symbolic Evidence
Small marks and sigil-like symbols often appear in my compositions — scratches of light, curved lines, subtle slashes of neon that interrupt the softness. These marks are my way of creating psychological ritual. They function like symbolic evidence in a giallo scene, but instead of pointing outward, they point inward. A thin ascending line becomes a shift in emotional direction. A spiral acts like a psychic echo. A sharp glowing cut becomes the trace of a moment that changed something inside. These ritual marks create an undercurrent of meaning: quiet, deliberate, emotionally charged.
Feminine Surrealism as Emotional Investigation
My work is feminine not because of subject matter alone, but because of the emotional sensitivity behind the symbols. I approach imagery like an investigator of the inner world, but with softness — with a kind of receptive awareness instead of harsh exposure. The giallo influence adds edge, contrast, psychological friction. The feminine surrealism adds tenderness, vulnerability, and intuitive understanding. Together, they allow me to create compositions that feel both atmospheric and introspective, like dream-scenes where emotion is the main character.
Texture as a Field of Tension
Texture plays a crucial role in balancing the sharpness of my colours and symbols. Grain, haze, softness around the edges, subtle distortions — these elements create the feeling that something is vibrating beneath the surface. Texture becomes the emotional fog where clarity slowly takes shape. It brings warmth to colder palettes. It gives depth to the shadows. It allows the glowing elements to burn quietly. Through texture, I can hold both tension and compassion in the same space, a quality that echoes the psychological mood of giallo while fully belonging to my world.
Why Giallo Resonates with My Symbolic Language
I return to giallo-inspired symbolism because it mirrors my interest in emotional thresholds: the moment before understanding, the hint before revelation, the symbol before the story. Flowers become emotional triggers. Eyes become portals of recognition. Colour becomes suspense. Texture becomes breath. Every element acts like a clue, not to an external mystery, but to an internal one. My art uses these motifs to explore what we feel before we fully know it — the psychological rituals we enact inside ourselves, the symbols we instinctively create to navigate our inner world.
In the end, my feminine surrealism is not about danger or fear. It is about illumination. It is about using intensity, symbol, colour and texture to uncover emotional truth. The giallo echoes in my work not through violence, but through atmosphere — through the quiet, glowing insistence that something meaningful is waiting just beneath the surface.
