Estate 4, acrylic paint, pigment, varnish on Arches paper, sold unframed, 39 x 31 cm, 2026.

Artwork inspired by Meredith D'Ambrosio's title: Estate (That Summer).

The work on paper is titled Estate (That Summer), a title that plays on a deliberate linguistic ambiguity even before viewing the image: in Italian, estate means "summer," while in English, estate refers to a property, an estate, or real estate. The subtitle in parentheses, (That Summer), clarifies the ambiguity and directs the reading toward the Italian meaning, "that summer."

Meredith D'Ambrosio, an American jazz pianist and singer renowned for her understated interpretations and refined understanding of the repertoire, recorded Estate (That Summer) on her album Beware of Spring! alongside a repertoire of songs built around the seasons and the passage of time.

I am referring to a tension common to both objects, pictorial and musical, between the apparent gentleness of the word "summer" and the melancholic weight it ultimately carries. In the song, summer is described as scorching, but with a burning intensity that has become painful; the sun, the sunsets, the scent of flowers—all this luminous, sensory vocabulary of the beautiful season is turned against itself, becoming the vehicle for sorrow. A visual work that adopts this same title thus seems to consciously follow this tradition: evoking the warm and luminous imagery of summer (colors, light, atmosphere) while subtly suggesting a sense of nostalgia or loss, precisely the strategy of the song, where the beauty of the season serves as a foil for absence.