Felt is an ancient story
A pre technological technology to transform some material naturally provided by the envinronment into an object to be used by humans for different pourpouses.
You do not need to kill any lifeform, to make felt, no need of polluting , no need of industrial structures, or chemical helping.
You just need to love physical work, the wool, the water and the form you conceived in your mind.
From no structure to structured object passing through your heart and muscles. And Work, and capability, and experiences, and mistakes, these funny teachers, and hope and disillusion. And lots of love and passion, and masters lessons. To mix a color, to choose a style, to homage an author to interprete a theme.
My inspiration sources are: the forest which sourrounds my studio, the ancient tales, my impulse for rebirthing after death, pop art, expressionisms, psycoanalysys, the material suggestions themselves, the marriage, the portrait as research of identity, the sensuality of the material itself, silk and wool, and warm water and marsiglia soap.henry matisse and the joy for life, Hans Harp, and Moore forms… Wahrol’s colors and Irony. Casuality, sex, Elisa’s songs, Oi va Voi song.s, my life history….
You start from a material wich has no form. Only some characteristics: is soft, is warm, is tender, is very fragile, is natural, it has the smell of a harmless animal.
You knead it into a shape. You work it frantically, with love, passion and soap. It becomes a being, normally a surprising one even if simple. Wool has a spiral structure, after the work shrinks in itself for a permanet bondage with a similar element, and forms something useful and very strong. Exactly as you would like to do your self.
You do not need to sew. To add elements. It’s all there.
You form a unique piece uncutted in itself and you model it on a shape, or in a shape, as a sculpture. And there is. You’ve done it. From nature to culture like modelling creta, or stones, or wood or ceramic.
This time is wool, and silk, the other shining miracle fiber, that embraces so sensually the warm wool.
Many kinds of wool, many kinds of silk, infinite combination, with the guide of your souls’ input.
Dedicated to life.