Matter I was born in the wood has always been my element, my subject. I studied through the experience of old, they were carpenters or farmers, legends and mythology, botany. Growing up with a lathe to go downstairs to play secretly manipulate the wood was the natural outlet for my first expressive needs, pencils and pens when not enough for me anymore. As a child I lived in the midst of boschi.Non I liked playing football, I amused myself with the trees, trees, trees. I suggest security, so huge, so strong, so wise. They were most interesting other children. The Then I started building furniture, working with wood to bring up money, cursing behind what appeared to defects, cracks, knots, parts that are not well absorbed the dye, and veins strange and deformed. I learned that these reactions years later I applied to my recent work. Yet for so long I never thought of wood as a base for my work and my research: I saw it too tied to tradition and figurative sculpture. I do not like anthropomorphizing a material with a deep spirituality as well. Wood is a living, even in death. Born with the sacrifice of a tree, with roots that have lived and produced oxygen. The tree is a vital element in the flesh of his memory and I see these processes, I feel that he was part of this system that keeps me alive. The wood has a memory, the first thing I do before starting a job is to count the circles that I will use the trunk. Through the thickness of individual rings recognize the dry years than wet and lose myself to imagine what the tree has lived at that time: how much history, wars, famines, deaths have seen, in many human tragedies and social character has done by supporting actor Silent and this over the centuries. Slowly I began to know him in another way, to have a more intimate relationship with him and childish. So I learned that the wood has a soul, a wise friend who is telling the life and seek advice. No more passive matter ready to be molded, but essential to interpret, to adapt to many human conditions, so easy to compare her to me, my life, my thoughts. I like to penetrate the material, download the rage in the wood with strong gestures, tiring and painful, without precision. Just like the human drives do. The
dilate, break it, the hammer, hit him with objects, ripping, the smell, the bite, they often eat to absorb its essence. The challenge in a physical fight: my strength against his tenacity, and I sometimes punishes injuring the body.
dilate, break it, the hammer, hit him with objects, ripping, the smell, the bite, they often eat to absorb its essence. The challenge in a physical fight: my strength against his tenacity, and I sometimes punishes injuring the body.