Domestic
Domestic is one of those ideas that urged me to be expressed and developed into a series of works but which stood compacted from 2013 up till 2019 in one single object - napkin and spoon shown in the images right below. And although in 2019 I was inspired to develop a few wearable objects after it, Domestic continues to be an open theme, projecting the ongoing transformation I experience in my relationship with the idea of (...) routine being a certain performance or rehearsal of the mind, an opportunity to look at things ever differently and to reconcile the hard task split between permanence and transition.*
Domestic also ironically entitles that which cannot be domesticated.
*excerpt from my book Looking at us looking at us, p.47, 2017
works from 2013/2019
Before the sun
The strange languor in the center of her consciousness, those vaporous ideas which kept appearing as though independently of her will, were mere tentative fragments of her own presence, looming against the nothingness of a sleep not yet cold—a sleep still powerful enough to return and take her in its arms.*
During sleep the brain is active, learning and remembering, interpreting and organizing random signals -dreams- and consolidating that of greatest emotional resonance, most salient and worthy of remembering.
It is surprising how existence can unfold within the mind as an abundant well of mystery. With its own vocabulary 'emanates the shadowy depths beneath.'*
Before the sun is a proposal that frames a very particular state of mind -'the realm of the invisible.'* - to unveil emotional memories.
*Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
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