In the work ABW327 we can read the photographic origins of Andrea Boyer before he arrived at painting in the late 1980s; this professional clarification is useful if we are to understand the poetic senses of the artist, who is close, also in his drawings, to the still life, a genre traditionally capable of gleaning the most important attributes of the object represented.
The traditional ceramic vase with its unmistakable decorations becomes the subject of the document analysed by the artist with a partial detail, which, by its very nature as a synecdoche, makes the part the mental equivalent of a very large and complex whole of an object presence represented in its totality: what confirms the almost metaphysical progression of thought and the imagination is the technique of the pencil drawing played out exclusively around the chromatic range of black and white and with a marked arrangement of light and shadow that decentralises the figurative dimension in favour of an uncanny translation.