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In Judit Bodo's large scale "visual diary" paintings, thick layers of paint applied with powerful and energetic gestures alternate with subtle plastic marks, creating relief-like surfaces. In a trance-like creative process, the surfaces are saturated with wild, honest gestures through expressive, sensitive rustic layering, creating this dynamic visual poetry of bursting expression. The visual forms that emerge and are formed are the hardened moments of a process. All the while, the process itself becomes the final product of the artwork, which the creator consciously follows on her own journey as an inside - outside observer. Judit Bodo (Hungarian artist, master painter), after completing her art studies and gaining experience in scenography and interior design, chose a "nomadic" life. Thus, living in different parts of Europe, she experienced the particular life offered by a multicultural background and finally, since 2015, she has been living in a "safe distance" from the big cities, in the natural, isolated and sparsely populated places of Sicily. This unusual and sometimes difficult experiment bought to the human and to the artist, is like a journey to the true, authentic self. The extraordinary natural values of the location conduct to a vivid interest in sustainable art by involved in diverse eco-design projects that have implication in nature conservation and experimenting with plant and earth-based pigments. At the same time, reusing, recycling she’s old colourful, embossed, canvas painted artworks and by exploiting the potential of digital technologies, preventing the re-accumulation of works that were once piled up and subsequently declared scrapped. The series from this process connect technology and artisanal solutions: -“While the resulting aesthetic is somewhat sterile.., the motions across the new surface become a personal, meditative ritual. I combine digital technique language with intuitive gestures making the created images evolve out of my own mind's archetypes and memory of the dinamics of the art making gestures… In the result obtained, I find many references to explore and experiment through ultimately, and found that everything is stratified only on the basis of the truth of one's own experience. Ultimately, always the focal point decides what is micro and what is macro, when its significance is determined by the focusing person, looking closely or remotely.”