personal quest
thread on folded tracing paper, 10.5 x 7.5 cm (each), 2024
Personal quest consists of two small handmade books composed by tracing paper and a thread, that runs through the pages of each piece. In the end of each book, there is the presence of a sentence: you found me / you found yourself. The work comes from the idea of the line as a continuum, as a connection element, symbolizing the course of a lifetime. Starting by a knot and finishing in another knot, as the start and finishing points, the path of the thread becomes visible through the transluscent aspect of the tracing paper, showcasing the many layers present in it.
process
"Sarah said that I'm really working with human intimacy, with what it feels like to be a human; about life and death. I'm dealing with being human.
Now, I might think about the edge, the fragility, the breaking and being held together. How to express that through materiality? Maybe evoking the body with the materiality, instead of the figure. Maybe informing forms of the human body, but more abstract. Maybe intersections between materials, like veils/curtains, evoking the first ideas of transparency. Treating materials more as objects; emotions related to the materials.
Thinking of ways to expand more. Keep moving forward." (12.02.24)
artist's journal, 2024
Thinking of the possibilities of evoking the presence of someone/of a body through materiality, I thought of the thread connected to the idea of "thread of life": a line that follows someone's journey on Earth, as the life in movement, as a path.
On the same week, our class had the bookbinding workshop with Clare Bryan, and the idea of continuity inspired me to work with this idea in the format of a book. I started to think of the pages as layers rather than a narrative, such as the layers of someone, the layers of a body, the layers of a lifetime.
The small scale of the book was thought of as an intimate object, as well as symbolizing how short a lifetime is; reflecting about presence and absence makes me think of life and death, which leads me once again to the idea of fragility and ephemerality. This time, rather than with the human figure, I attempted to evoke this through materiality.
bookbinding workshop, february 2024