Bones and BoneTapestries
Bones are figurative works.
They have lost their flesh and most of the time also their colors to become less human and more like signs or symbols.
Some are filigree beings lost in space, others are immersed in a web of interconnected shapes.
Chromotherapy and Torn Talking Tapestries
I collected in Chromotherapy all the works in which I felt that color had a greater importance than elsewhere.
These works are like colorful pills that give relief.
Torn Talking Tapestries are all quite large works, some are mutations and extensions of Organics and Psychotapestries, others were created from hand-made works.
In the Torn Talking Tapestries the idea of tapestry has evolved to greater complexity. New elements have been added that make the surface even more like a multidimensional landscape, as if a gap opened up and further dimensions became visible.
Crosses
Crosses are variations on the form of the cross, a very rich, multilayered symbol that transcends the boundaries of religion.
Cryptobones
Cryptobones are small, stylized beings. Each of them seems to express a tiny message or a sentence fragment.
Cryptos and Cryptotapestries
Cryptos are calligraphic works that always involve a word, a phrase, or lines of a poem.
They are compositions of letters and signs that intersect and intertwine, suggesting transpositions of meaning or even unspecified magical or mantric applications.
Cryptos are about weaving words and turning texts into textures.
Words become bodies, inhabit space.
Letters intertwine and form buildings or natural forms.
Deviants and Grays
At first Deviants were nothing more than works to which I could not assign a family.
Deviants have a very independent character and they do not resemble each other.
They could become the starting point for new families or just remain alone and happy to be so. They are the outsiders among the outsiders.
Grays are mutations of Organics and Psychotapestries patterns, which have lost their color and taken on a more serious and, in some cases, melancholic character as if some patterns had aged but gained wisdom and depth.
Grays are winter works, where life has taken refuge in an invisible underground. But the proximity of death is nothing but preparation for resurrection in new forms, so Grays are not dark, indeed some of them, by losing color, have paradoxically gained more warmth.
Dressed Words
Dressed Words are graphic design works, where short or longer texts are placed on top of a background that dresses them up, makes them stand out and adds an extra layer of meaning.
Holy Towers
Holy towers are large vertical works that recall towers, menhirs, doors, stained glass windows, skyscrapers…
They are combinations of elements drawn from all the other families.
New Primitives and Silhous
New Primitives and Silhous are figurative or abstract works which look like they were found in an old cave, somewhere in a land we don’t visit very often.
They have something archaic and seem to come from a tribal past. But their message is new, turned to a future still unknown.
New Primitives and Silhous are less about lost memories than about timeless riddles.
Organics and Organic Tapestries
Organics are non-figurative drawings. Signs and symbols float on a chaotic (organic) background, forms try to emerge and reveal / disclose themselves.
Constructs form and dissolve and then return to aggregate into other forms. Sometimes the destruction is painful and leaves dense traces or charred remains, other times the new is clear and clean, like a newborn, fully aware of its Soulful Self.
In the Organic tapestries, fragments of Organics are mirrored and reproduced to create a surface, like cells becoming tissues or fabrics.
Psychotapestries
Psychotapestries are now an exclusively digital category. The hand drawings (called Psychedelics) were large-format drawings made with markers and felt tip pens on a special handmade paper, which absorbed the colors and formed smooth surfaces.
I photographed or scanned parts of the original drawings and created variations and mutations, which formed many tapestries and carpets. I have thrown away almost all drawings on paper. They were slowly fading away, agonizing. Now they live in their digital children.
Fluid forms evoke the organic substrate of life. This family is, in my perception, especially psychoactive.
Soul Tapestries
In the Soul tapestries one being becomes many, which mirror each other and expand in space.
Souls
Souls represent anthropomorphic beings, some of them carrying mysterious names.
They look like fragments of a new mythology, where old archetypes appear in new roles.
They are a tribute to vulnerability and resilience and an invitation to play with the emotions they evoke.
Some of them receive through mirroring a sort of virtual twin, with a fully different character.
Isomorphic figures show sometimes a kind of numinosity, they look like whimsical gods; some are warriors, others orphans or hermaphrodites.
Stills and Still Tapestries
Stills are abstract works, evoking states of mind, or stylized translations of objects and beings.
This family also includes complex filigree works, virtual embroideries or lattices that could represent networks of relationships.
Some of them are more like architectures; others are like cells growing into tissues.
At first, they were all in black and white, then some colored ones were born.
Talking Tiles
Talking Tiles, like Holy Towers, are created from fragments of works belonging to other families.
The idea was to create a series of square or, in some cases, round works that resembled mandalas and could be combined with each other, like letters of an alphabet.