Pool Olaista is an ongoing series of paintings that transforms the swimming pool into a place of imagination, desire, and contemplation. Drawing from the traditions of landscape painting, architecture, and the culture of leisure, these works present pools that do not exist yet feel strangely familiar.
Rather than depicting specific locations, the paintings create psychological spaces—portals where memory, fantasy, and reality converge. Influenced by the Italian landscape, Renaissance ideals of beauty, and the romantic notion of escape, each pool becomes an invitation to imagine a different way of inhabiting the world.
Seen through the lens of Olaismo, water is no longer simply a physical element but a metaphor for perception itself: fluid, unstable, and constantly changing. The pools emerge as landscapes of desire, places where viewers can project their dreams, memories, and aspirations. In this sense, Pool Olaista is less about swimming than about longing the universal desire to reach a place that exists somewhere between reality and imagination.
