Of all the happy memories

by Sofia Cappello

  • Artist

    Sofia Cappello

  • Title

    Of all the happy memories

  • Year

    2020

  • Technique

    Oil painting on canvas

No matter how far it is from what we consider home, each person has in a symbolic image of what connects to warmth and feeling welcome, it has nothing to do with the family we happen to have, but rather with the one we consciously choose for ourselves and the set of people and environments we love to surround ourselves with. Then, that warmth can be felt even in the dark, kilometers away from everything we know, just hearing happy conversations in a foreign language, observing a small, illuminated house from afar…