"When I begin an illustration, I often start from an idea that has been with me for a long time, an image I once saw, a thought, a dream, or a fragment of words that stayed with me. Yet when colour enters the work, something shifts. Small details begin to change, then larger ones. The process is not entirely deliberate: the drawing moves ahead of my intention, guided by a logic I only partly control."
"Only once the image is finished do I recognise what I had been searching for all along, the drawing has taken on another form, and its meaning becomes visible to me. In this sense, drawing becomes a method of inquiry: a way to investigate what lies beneath the surface of thought, giving shape to an inner landscape that reveals itself only through the act of making."
Costanza Starrabba, known as Starrenco, is an Italian artist and illustrator educated at IED Rome and completed her Master's in Milan. Her work blends reality with distortion, reinterpreting elements, colors, and dynamics to create slightly disorienting imaginary worlds. Her illustrations combine intentional planning with intuitive emotional traces, reflecting her perspectives on femininity, irony, and humor in human relationships. Drawing serves as her method of personal investigation and narration of inner reality. Starrenco's creative process begins with long-held ideas, images, thoughts, dreams, or word fragments. As color enters her work, details shift and evolve through a partially uncontrolled logic. The drawing's true meaning and form only become visible upon completion, making the process itself an inquiry into what lies beneath conscious thought.
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