Kiasmo - Francesco Di Dio - Frame (4) - Wood, Canvas

Kiasmo
Series title: The Built in Mind.
4 pcs
Designer : Francesco Di Dio

Concept
The Built in Mind is a series of illustrations by architect Francesco Di Dio, known as Effe, for Kiasmo, exploring architecture as a metaphor for the mind. In these works, space does not obey the laws of physics or the codes of traditional design: staircases that lead nowhere, unreachable entrances, suspended and floating volumes, unsustainable proportions. These are structures that do not aspire to be built in the real world, but exist exclusively in the fluid realm of thought.
Here, the mind is the invisible architect. Each image begins as an inner project: a place generated by intuitions, memories, desires and perceptions. Like an architect, the mind designs spaces, opens passageways, erects walls and invents perspectives through which we interpret the world. But unlike real architecture, these constructions need not follow rules, proportions or functional logic: they can be free, dreamlike, contradictory.
The series reflects on how our thoughts construct our inner reality, our “mental home.” We often inhabit invisible structures made up of beliefs, habits and interpretations inherited from our culture and environment.
Through Effe’s illustrations, The Built in Mind instead suggests the possibility of becoming architects of our own perception. Imagined architecture thus becomes an exercise in freedom: places where thought can experiment, deconstruct patterns and reconstruct new inner landscapes. Each work is both a building and a mental process: a construction that reveals how the reality we inhabit is, first and foremost, a project of the mind.
4 prints on textured wallpaper, framed in natural wood and accompanied by a Kiasmo certificate of authenticity.
Unpublished, brand-new samples not yet featured on the Kiasmo website
Dimensions 46 x 30
A3 format plus frame