STRONG, SURREALIST WOMEN (WITH TENTACLES) Nicoletta Ceccoli's fantastical world is a whimsical menagerie: airy yet distanced, wearily peering at the viewer from behind a funhouse mirror. It's nostalgic sadness is particularly striking, and is written int0 the various characters Ceccoli brings to life. In the same way Pinocchio wished to be a real boy, these dainty creations are inherently out of place, bridging that sense of longing with flashes of pure child's joy. Ceccoli's artwork gives us access into her deepest