Studio project

OSS Care Work

A Flavia and Matteo collaboration about care, training, hospital work, and the shortage of nursing staff in Italy.

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Invented depiction of Flavia as an OSS in a hospital corridor with a yellow flower

Story

Care work and image-making

Portrait, corridor, and symbolic calm shape this project. It connects Flavia's experience studying and becoming certified as an OSS, operatore socio sanitario, with Matteo's image-making process. The central OSS portrait is an invented depiction of Flavia, not a real photograph.

The works invite care workers, families, cultural groups, and health-care communities to see hospital labor as human, emotional, and worthy of attention.

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Invented Flavia OSS portrait in a hospital corridor holding a yellow flower

OSS corridor

Invented portrait, hospital corridor, yellow flower, care-work identity.

Wide digital illustration of a serene nurse figure from the care-work project

Care figure

Serene figure study linked to nursing, service, and quiet attention.

Serene portrait

Portrait study about dignity, presence, and the inner life of care.

Roses and henna

Symbolic portrait with floral and decorative elements around care.