Nicola Mastroserio does not concern himself with what is fashionable. He does not create for market cycles or adjust his vision to please buyers. His art turns instead toward what lasts. It is a practice rooted in inquiry—into existence, consciousness, and the unseen patterns that shape our days. His work resists being boxed in by easy labels. It is less about surface and more about essence, a steady meditation on the fact of being alive.
Decoration is not his aim. These works are not designed to charm or distract. Each painting stands more like a marker, a signpost pointing inward. They remind us to look past appearances and notice what connects us. Mastroserio’s canvases are both vision and question—acts of endurance made visible. They ask us not to move quickly, but to pause, to reflect, to find the threads that bind all things together.
The Universal Symbol of Love
One of Mastroserio’s most direct creations is what he names the Universal Symbol of Love. At its center is love—love not as sentiment, but as the fundamental force sustaining everything that exists. The work does not hide its intention. It speaks clearly: love is the way forward.
The composition is stripped to essentials. A circle, beams of light, a series of nested squares. Simple geometry, yet within it lies depth. The circle radiates outward, hinting at expansion, while the squares draw the gaze inward, toward an unseen center. It is a visual language without borders, one that communicates across culture and time.
For Mastroserio, this is not a pattern or ornament. It is an emblem of the One alive in all things. It reminds us that we are not isolated, but joined—a single life expressed through many forms. The piece becomes less an artwork on a wall and more a signal, a beacon urging us toward cooperation and unity beyond difference.
Where contemporary art often celebrates ambiguity, this work does not. It is unambiguous, spiritual, firm. It declares that life and love are indivisible—two expressions of the same current moving through creation.
The claim is bold: everything rests on love, not as a symbol but as a fact. The work stands as a declaration, lifting up values often spoken but seldom lived—Peace, Love, Charity. These, Mastroserio insists, are not ideals but necessary directions, “given according to the will of Heaven.”
A Guide Rather Than an Object
To stand before this piece is to feel a kind of steadiness. Distractions fall away. What remains is a choice: embrace the path of love or remain in division. The outward rays suggest openness, a reaching into the world. The nested squares lead inward, a call to journey deeper toward the origin of being.
Mastroserio’s vision is not bound to systems of belief, philosophy, or tradition. It points further, toward a future not shaped by debate or ideology but by alignment with love.
In a fractured world, such clarity can feel radical. Political noise, cultural arguments, endless competition—all of it scatters attention. But the Universal Symbol of Love holds steady. It does not shout or attempt spectacle. Its strength lies in its simplicity, in its unwillingness to compromise its meaning.
The symbol works as both memory and prophecy. It recalls that love already sustains life, even when forgotten. And it forecasts that healing for humanity depends on returning to this truth and living it.
For Mastroserio, there is no alternative. This is not one path among many—it is the path. His work does not map multiple directions. It offers a single compass, always pointing to the same orientation. The message is clear, direct, and without hesitation: the way forward is love.
