Jacopo Mazzetti
Dimensional Absorption (II)
2025
Pigments and oil on silicon
55 x 200 x 2.5 cm

Dimensional Absorption originates from a lucid dream in which a meteorite struck the Earth and the artist experienced his own death within the impact. Rather than an ending, death appeared as a vivid, transformative event: a fluid passage into another state of existence.

The series seeks to return this experience to its original clarity, free from the fears that religious and cultural traditions have long built around mortality, often as instruments of control. In their place, the work embraces a flat ontology in which humans, minerals, stars and microorganisms share the same plane of existence, and an animist sensibility that recognises life and agency in all matter. Within this continuum, death is simply a change of state, a natural process of cosmic integration.

Layered on silicon, pigments and oils generate holographic surfaces where natural and synthetic elements merge across micro and macro scales. Crystalline structures, celestial impacts and chemical reactions surface and dissolve in continuous transformation, recalling the slow alchemy of petrified wood, in which silica gradually replaces organic tissue and the living turns to mineral. Here death is no longer something to fear, but a silent reintegration into the fabric of the universe.

Jacopo Mazzetti
Dimensional Absorption (II)
2025
Pigments and oil on silicon
55 x 200 x 2.5 cm

Dimensional Absorption originates from a lucid dream in which a meteorite struck the Earth and the artist experienced his own death within the impact. Rather than an ending, death appeared as a vivid, transformative event: a fluid passage into another state of existence.

The series seeks to return this experience to its original clarity, free from the fears that religious and cultural traditions have long built around mortality, often as instruments of control. In their place, the work embraces a flat ontology in which humans, minerals, stars and microorganisms share the same plane of existence, and an animist sensibility that recognises life and agency in all matter. Within this continuum, death is simply a change of state, a natural process of cosmic integration.

Layered on silicon, pigments and oils generate holographic surfaces where natural and synthetic elements merge across micro and macro scales. Crystalline structures, celestial impacts and chemical reactions surface and dissolve in continuous transformation, recalling the slow alchemy of petrified wood, in which silica gradually replaces organic tissue and the living turns to mineral. Here death is no longer something to fear, but a silent reintegration into the fabric of the universe.