Homo Faber – at Fondazione Giogio Cini, Venice

‘Crafting a more human nature’

An inspiring showcase of the finest European Craftmanship.

It’s an honour to be selected amongst the Best European Craftsmen and present ‘Tactile Intuition’ a large scale wallpiece.

‘A captured moment of an instinctive feeling, a static moment of a fall with extra force where it ends and decomposes’.

‘Best of Europe’ 

Curated by Jean Blanchaert.

Tactile Intuition, 2017

cotton

120 x 485 x 15 cm

‘Tactile Intuition’ is the culmination of a two year period of experiments on the double cloth technique. The beginning of this process followed a systematic and vigorous approach to this technique. Gradually with a profound experimentation moved beyond it’s limitations to present a different and unexpected freedom with which I could express myself through thread. To create a liberated more symbolic weave which appears to be detached from the loom and the weaver, a woven landscape.

My aim was to capture a moment of an instinctive feeling and translate it into a woven landscape in order to create a liberated more symbolic weave which appears to be detached from the loom and the weaver. This piece moved beyond it’s limitations to present a kind of freedom with which I could express myself through thread. The wall-piece hangs heavily from a solid brass rod, emphasizing the downfall weight of the piece like a cascade, creating a spatial ‘environment’. A thick cotton warp and weft in two custom dyed colours create an irregular structure suggestive of a secret instinctive surrounding. The brown colours symbolize a magnetic groundness, creating a monolithic landscape with a profound echo.