All grown-ups were once children... but only a few of them remember it. The magic of childhood fades away as we grow older. We get so preoccupied with our adult duties that we forget about the things we did and dreamed of when we were kids. What starts out as discovery becomes manipulated slowly but surely into “order” coloring in between the lines. 
 
My work explores the relationship between printed found media and childlike playfulness.
 
With influences as diverse as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wassily Kandinsky and E.H. Shepard, patches of bright color and shapes come to the forefront, while the viewer is left with a blueprint of order, chaos and randomness that only the adults would understand.
 
Raffaele Stuparitz
photocopied geometric patterns, colored pencil, marker
8.5 x 11"
Córdoba, Spain
2023