Influenced by the sepia tones of my early technical explorations, using coffee, cuttlefish ink, coal and charcoal, I was deeply moved by the visual universe of the Belle Époque.
The elegance of its silhouettes, the poetry of its gestures, and the nostalgia of vintage photographs inspired a series of works that reinterpret this era with emotion.

The earliest traces of this coffee-based painting technique date back to Victor Hugo’s experiments between 1830 and 1870, when he was already using similar processes that blended intuition, material, and imagination.