Temptation Lana Crooks allowing the work to dictate

allowing the work to dictate its own construction

Here there are places half remembered

Our projects are not only dolls

and incomplete

Temptation Lana Crooks allowing the work to dictateDetails About Oil on linen 16 x 20 in. 2025 Erica Calardo (Genoa, 1980) is a figurative painter living and working in Bologna, Italy. Her works in oils, watercolors, and pencils are windows on the solitude of lost souls. She explores the realm of Beauty, Grotesque, Magic, by creating eery oneiric feminine figures who tell tales of long forgotten dreams, of an imaginary timeless past. Deeply rooted in the Italian Tradition, her technique is inspired by