For a cyclical material culture from art and crafts

Abstract

The development of my artistic practice, in recent years, has led to a search and understanding of the territory itself as a generator of natural and cultural ecosystems that link us in a very close way to the place. Knowing this place and starting from it is a fundamental premise when carrying out an artistic intervention in the landscape. I understand this creative process as a collaboration with the ecosystem: the tree, the land, the water, the animals and, by extension, the peasant, the artisan or the shepherd, are also an active and transforming part of the work itself. The work process in nature puts me in contact with the daily reality, not only of the landscape, but of the people who live in it, their privileges and their difficulties. Using the materials of the environment itself becomes a research tool to work on, to understand the cyclical process of continuous transformations on which the landscape is drawn. Traditional crafts, organic farming and extensive grazing have been great sources of inspiration in my work process, revaluing a cyclical material culture, which starts from the territory's own resources without generating foreign waste. The relationship with the inhabitants of the environments in which I work is usually very close. Sometimes the work processes are participatory or collaborative proposals are generated.