Frammenti

2015 - 2016

Frammenti

2015 - 2016

  • oil on Belgian linen, embroidery, cotton, 70 x 68 in., 180 x 175 cm.
  • oil on Belgian linen, cotton, 70 x 68 in., 180 x 175 cm. Private collection
  • oil on Belgian linen, embroidery, cotton, 70 x 68 in., 180 x 175 cm.
  • oil on Belgian linen, embroidery, cotton, 70 x 68 in., 180 x 175 cm.
  • oil on Belgian linen, embroidery, cotton, 70 x 68 in., 180 x 175 cm.
  • oil on Belgian linen, embroidery, cotton, 70 x 68 inches, 180 x 175 cm. (back view)
  • 2017, Italian Embassy, Washington D.C.

During my stay in a secluded cottage in Cornwall, I’d go out in the dark isolated landscape and paint fragments of the night. Once back in the studio, I cut into pieces old linen pillowcases, handed down by my grandmother to my mother and ultimately to me. Working with local embroiderers, I sewed the linen squares together, and then stitched my Cornish night paintings to the fragments. They fold and unfold like bed sheets, slowly revealing within them traces left behind by three generations of women.   


August 17th, 2015

"Fragmentation as infinite energy of possibility: a fragment will mirror our desire for unity; its nature, both proposing and denying wholeness, can never be fully grasped or exhausted". 

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