JANUARY 2026

For over four decades, Swiss-Italian artist Carmelo Buffoli has maintained a rigorous daily practice: the simultaneous keeping of a day journal and a night book, documenting both waking experience and dreams. In 2026, this lifelong discipline expands into new territory.

Each day of the year becomes a double-sided page on handmade paper (350 g/m²). On one side, Buffoli scratches geometric forms into the surface before filling them with ink – creating subtle, nearly invisible architectures that emerge only through light and shadow. On the reverse, dense handwritten text captures the day's events and the night's dreams in Buffoli's distinctive illustrative script.

The commitment is monumental: 365 days, 730 individual pages, each one unique. Together, they form not merely a diary, but a codex – a year transformed into material form, where time becomes tangible, and lived experience solidifies into architecture.

The images shown here are from January 2026. Dark geometries float on textured paper. Text blocks compress language into visual density. What emerges is neither purely visual nor purely literary, but something else entirely: a meteorology of being.

This is time made visible. This is a life becoming a city.