Ongoing projects

The garden’s memory

As a support for the transcription of people’s thoughts, paper is part of our collective memory.

Modulated paper is like a travel journal. It morphs in color and light labyrinths, as I saw them in the mountain areas I had wondered during my childhood. The places where I grew up, semi-virgin, which I still wonder picking up plants from clearings or gardens, are a stock of emotions and intuitions which inspire me.

The garden is a place of feelings, emotions and creativity. Its a place of sensations and reflection which makes us understand the world in a different way. It is a space marked by the rhythm of seasons, by light, earth and the rustle of the wind. The vegetation, witness of decomposition/recomposition, wonderfully adapted to climate conditions is an inexhaustible source of exploration. Here you have to have a privileged relationship with the plants. They are generators of a pure atmosphere but also providers of essential food. Their capacity of surviving short summers gives them a special texture and flavor. Once found back in my working space I continue my experience without loosing the sensation I perceived in the sky, in the light, in a certain moment, trying to transpose the language of plants in artistic expression. I give shape to recycled paper, embossed paper, paper impregnated with color. They are the memory of a space, of a landscape.

Paper has an organic language. When I modulate paper, I leave it before anything to speak, to evoke the roughness of the tree trunks, of the stone, of the overturn furrow, of ephemeral wings, of plants pulp, of foliage. The matter is melted in water, dried, pigmented, mixed. While mixing the textures I let myself led by their characteristics. I see it as a symbolic material. Hasn’t it been the vehicle of civilizations? At the same time it is a reminiscence of the nature, of the seasons.