Clouds and trains. #photostr #photography

You’ve never held a paintbrush, you can’t tell oil from acrylic, but don’t worry: in contemporary abstract painting a couple of random smudges are enough to call yourself an “artist.” But if you really want to feel #art flowing through you, embrace the struggle, the effort, and the discipline: that’s where true beauty is born.

#Nostr is also a dopamine trap, and I don’t know how to break away from it. But there’s no point in painting without sharing your work. Nostr, along with Plebeian Market, has become my main showcase after my website. Instagram and Telegram are completely marginal. This constant posting and sharing feels like a drug I no longer want to depend on—but I don’t know how to quit. The cycle between the need to create, the need to share, and the immediate gratification (or frustration) that follows—I realize this is a very common dynamic among artists and creatives online. Still, it makes little sense to paint just to leave the work locked away in a drawer. Art also lives in the eyes of others, and tools like Nostr or Plebeian Market give a visibility that a static website struggles to offer. But this constant exposure also becomes a cage, because it makes you dependent on reactions, notifications, statistics, hearts, and comments. This “dopamine trap” I feel around me is starting to feel tight. The only solution I see is to share my work just once a month. I don’t want to disappear—I just want to live and paint. It’s not about “stopping sharing,” but about regaining my autonomy in deciding when and how to do it.

L'ATTESA DI UN MOMENTO ✓ ORIGINAL oil painting (WITHOUT FRAME) ✓ Size: 40x40 cm ✓ Materials: Oil on canvas There is an instant that never quite happens, yet you hold it in your breath: a light withheld, a shadow lingering on the edge of day. This painting does not speak of before or after, but of that precise second when everything waits — the soul suspended between hope and silence. Take it with you: let it remind you that every waiting is already life. 🫂🎨 🎨 Available immediately here 👇

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Isolabellart

Original oil paintings

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@🟡 BeaUnique is making pizzas! 😍🍕 #foodstr #nostrcooking

One horizon, three hearts. My wife, my dog and me. #photostr #photography #grownostr #isolabellart #beaunique

Consistency matters. If you stand for certain values on #Nostr, you should reflect them on other platforms too. If you choose to wear a badge on Xitter or Instagram, you can’t pretend not to wear it on Nostr. Consistency speaks louder than words.

My paintings seek a home. I remain here, painting silence.

Isolabellart

Isolabellart

Original oil paintings

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I only sponsor my wife @🟡 BeaUnique but she pays me in pizza and eggplant parmigiana. If you want me to sponsor you too, now you know how to do it.

My best sponsors on Nostr are those who keep my paintings in their homes around the world. And I couldn't ask for better ones.

It’s curious: outside Italy there are people who appreciate and share my art, while at home I remain almost invisible. Often those who know you closely — family, friends, neighbors — are the first to downplay or overlook your merits, while strangers are more likely to offer respect and admiration. Perhaps it’s true: no one is a prophet in their own land. But that’s fine. Art travels freely, without borders, and always finds the eyes that know how to see.

Those who have followed me for a while know this: every painting I create is a fragment of suspended time, a breath turned into color. Elsewhere my art remained invisible, suffocated by algorithms and toxic dynamics. Then Nostr and Bitcoin arrived — and the silence became a voice. Here I don’t seek numbers, I seek eyes. Here art doesn’t need to scream to exist: it only needs the gaze of those who know how to stop and contemplate. #art #isolabellart #nostr #bitcoin

It's very nice to make up for certain mistakes made through ignorance. "Your Coinbase account has been deleted." And finally! I might add...

The first two fragments of "SILENCE AMONG THE FLOWERS" are now alive. The other two still linger in suspension. I don’t know when they will choose to appear. In the end, the quartet will be complete: at first, it will be available as a single breath, four silences woven together. Only later, if no one wishes to keep them united, each painting may be adopted separately — though at a higher cost, because breaking what was born as one always demands greater care. Each canvas carries a different light, a moment of silence to hold close. #art #artstr #isolabellart