Before SID.WIND, I was a musician. I played in a band and performed regularly, and for a long time music was my main creative outlet
Later, my life moved in different directions, but the need to create never really disappeared. I kept exploring different forms of art, and eventually that path led me to what I’m doing today
SID.WIND began in February 2026, during a difficult period in my life. From the outside, everything seemed fine, but internally I felt the need to step outside of my usual state and try something completely different
I have always felt a strong connection with nature. When I’m by the sea, in a forest, or simply surrounded by trees, I feel like I can slow down, reset and come back to myself.
One day, a very simple thought came to me:
What if I let a tree paint?
I choose the location and the tree. I prepare the surface, select the materials and colours, set up the brush and begin the process
But from that moment on, I can no longer decide exactly where the next line will go, how strong the movement will be, or what the next brushstroke will look like
The tree and the wind decide that.
Without me, that particular painting wouldn’t exist. But I could never recreate by myself exactly what nature creates.
It’s a collaboration
Every tree moves differently. Each has its own branches, flexibility and rhythm. Then there is the wind, the weather and the particular moment in which the painting is created
That means the same process can never truly happen twice
Over time, the project has also taught me something simple: you can prepare everything, but you can’t prepare the result
Perhaps some of the most interesting things happen when we stop trying to control every detail.
The search itself has become part of my practice. Sometimes I walk for hours looking for the right place. Often, the tree that catches my attention isn’t the biggest or the most visually perfect. It might be crooked, standing alone, or something most people would simply walk past
And then, for some reason, I see it and know:
this is it
From this process grew a larger idea: 500 Episodes created around the world.
I want to travel, discover new landscapes and create these works with different trees, different winds and different environments across the planet
Each Episode becomes a record of a specific encounter — a particular tree, a particular place, a particular movement of the wind and a moment that will never happen in exactly the same way again
The coordinates preserve where it happened. The painting preserves what happened there
Our planet has an incredible amount of nature to discover. SID.WIND gives me a reason to keep moving, looking more closely and exploring places I might otherwise never have seen
And maybe these paintings can be a small reminder to do the same — to notice what is around us, to leave room for the unexpected, and sometimes simply to let things happen.
Even if social media, views and exhibitions disappeared tomorrow, I think I would still continue doing this
I love the process itself