Parla

Parla (Speak), the concluding chapter of the sensory trilogy (alongside Osserva and Ascolta), is a work of extraordinary expressive power within the One Line Collection. Against a limestone-white background, applied with rough, textural brushstrokes reminiscent of urban plaster, emerges a face profile outlined by a broken and vibrant black line. In stark contrast to the purity of the background, splashes of color and orange and blue speckles suggest the background noise and the complexity of thought that precedes language.

The focal point of the artwork consists of sculptural lips, in a lacquered and carnal red, which seem almost to detach themselves from the pictorial surface. From them emerges a yellow lightning bolt—a three-dimensional insert that cuts vertically through the composition and extends beyond the lower frame. This "bolt" is a metaphor for speech: a powerful, sometimes dangerous energy capable of shattering silence and altering the surrounding reality. Parla transforms the act of speaking into a physical and textural gesture, reminding us that every spoken word is an electrical discharge projecting our inner self into the outer world.