“I grew up in weaving workshops, full of threads and light, and it was quite naturally that I had the idea of weaving space with light. I remember very clearly the excitement of those first times when I tried these luminous, yet very rudimentary, brushes. (…) In this ‘blind’ drawing, is it the hand that guides the mind, or the mind that guides the hand?”
In recent years, Proverbio continued his research with another series of works with what he called the Aesthetics of Water: photographs of simple geometric elements taken through wa- ter. Proverbio finds in these deformations an inexhaustible mine of organic forms, seen sur- reptitiously in the reflections of the water. In a further exploration of these organic and kinetic forms, Proverbio has in recent years been creating mixed-media collages. Set against an end- less matt black background, like his photograms, these coloful forms ooze and burst across the surface, remininscent too of forms that one can find in nature.