Barabeke in Florence with the Earlier Mona Lisa

I have been a digital artist since 2006, doing art for art’s sake, as a natural urge. Most of my works consist in editing and blending photos I take in extreme ways, without any hand drawing involved, creating with reality as seen through the camera a new reality of psychic and archetypal nature.

When I create, more than an artist I feel like a shaman summoning spirits, or an alchemist. That’s why I call my process transmutation.

I also love to work with fractals, which I have recurrently included in my works, and I am experimenting with video.

Barabeke reading the 2kTenCom

I have an inclination for conceptual and performance art as I like to provide experiences that can challenge conventional thinking.

Lately I have been into taking paintings from masters of the past and make them my own with a style that I call transfigurations, which involves replicating the original painting thousands of times, with almost as many variations, forming a microcosm which I try to keep in harmony with the macrocosm of the transfigured artwork.

Transfiguration of Earlier Mona Lisa

Visual art is just part of my craft, I am also a “very late beat poet“, the vehicle of Ten Commandments for the Digital Millennium (2kTenCom), and more…

On social media I am mostly active on Twitter, and to a lesser extent on Instagram. Best way for you to reach out is via Twitter or my Telegram.