Notes

The OSS care-work project began after Flavia, an artist and painter living in the Friuli region of northern Italy, heard about the shortage of nursing staff and began looking more closely at care work.

She found an OSS course, Operatore Socio Sanitario, and was drawn especially to the care part of the role. During training she spent time in hospital shifts in Udine and later worked in care environments connected to disability support, elderly care, and retirement structures. Some settings were difficult, but she completed the course and kept making and showing art along the way.

In the shared Tinto images, the subject is not documentary reporting. It is a way to hold attention on care, shortage, dignity, and the human atmosphere around work that is often essential but not well supported.

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Cats return often in Flavia's work and in the shared Tinto archive because they carry several feelings at once: affection, mystery, independence, domestic life, and quiet companionship.

Flavia has lived with cats and also keeps a small daily ritual of leaving food for a cat that appears regularly near her. That kind of ordinary attention fits naturally with the studio's interest in care, presence, and small scenes from real life.

In the images, cats can be playful, symbolic, decorative, or watchful. They give visitors a familiar first doorway into a wider body of work.

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The Brazil / Italy memory works come from lived connection rather than from travel imagery alone.

Flavia is originally from Brazil, with roots in Minas Gerais, and has lived in Italy for many years. Sometimes places, colors, and atmospheres from Brazil return as artistic associations inside Italian life.

Matteo is originally from Italy and has visited Brazil several times, seeing landscapes from rural villages and small towns to Rio, green spaces, and places connected to Minas Gerais. Those memories also enter the shared image-making process.

Tinto Studio uses this crossing as a visual language: rooms with distant windows, Italian scenes carrying Brazilian color, and images where memory is allowed to rearrange geography.

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