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‘The first time I was struck by the significance of Silvi’s work was when I saw the first group of her cactus series. I asked her what had inspired the work and she spoke of her grandmother’s cactus garden in Argentina. The images were of memory, of love and beauty, aspects of human condition that artists have either striven towards, or in their disappointment, rejected. In a world of uncertainty it is all too easy to give up the search to understand the harmonies that underlie our chaotic existences. Silvi has worked increasingly towards discovering these harmonies……
If we look closely with a deep rather than a superficial vision at the details in the natural world around us, we consciously or unconsciously see the mathematical relationships of symmetry and order that are fundamental to the construction of the universe. The ratios of the Parthenon and the Pyramid of Cheops are harmonious because they mirror the relative energies of electron shells and the ratios of distances between the arms of spiral nebulae. Between these extremes in the cosmology of our human perception we see the expanding rings in the nautilus shell and the sequential branches of leaves on the trees of the forests and the plants of our gardens.These are the metaphors that describe both the atom and the stars and these are the equivalents, the metaphors that Silvi reveals to us through her vision and her extraordinary and exquisite techniques. Silvi’s Images are the windows to the infinite, keys to the meaning of what we call beauty’
Brian Gilkes 2003
