Vanishing crafts

TANGIBLE HERITAGE. Drawing from ancestral materials and objects, this collection reclaims forgotten crafts as a living and fragile heritage.

This collection emerges from ancient crafts and materials that carry the trace of time, forms repeated for centuries. There is no nostalgia here, but a living memory that still breathes through the gestures of the hands.

Each piece is condensed time. A slow imprint, shaped by repetition and silence, where matter is transformed through a delicate tension between form and restraint. Working in the midst of nature shifts everything into a different rhythm. The pieces take on soft, almost organic movements, as if they remembered trees and their invisible cycles. Together in the workshop, they resemble a small forest: quiet, subtle, alive.

To create becomes a space of full presence, where time expands and mistakes are part of the path. A place where ancient gestures reappear, as if they had always been there, waiting to be repeated once again.

Each piece is unique within its series. Although the materials have been treated and protected, they may change over time.

Esparto 007

Esparto and cane
183x113x31cm
1840gr

Esparto 001

Esparto and cane
160x93x14cm
1210gr

Esparto 001

Esparto and cane
160x93x14cm
1210gr

Hoops OO13

Iron circles and cane
114x135x108 cm
1080gr

Hoops 0013

Iron circles and cane
114x135x108 cm
1080gr

Hoops 009

Iron circles and cane
121x122x61 cm
1450gr

Staves OO17

Wood and cane
176x107x91cm
3730gr

Hoops and staves 0020

Iron circles, wood and cane
165x112x69cm
3160gr

Hoops and staves 0019

Iron circles, wood and cane
165x112x69cm
3160gr

MAR INTERN

Mar Intern (Inner Sea) is a series of ornamental pieces that, through visual poetry, express universal feelings. In this collection, I revisit ancestral clothing, appropriating the belief in its healing power with the desire for a shift in collective consciousness.

Nature plays a central role, represented with great
admiration for the inherent beauty in everything our planet creates. The materials selected for this works include invasive species, at risk of extinction, or overexploited.

In Roman times, the Mediterranean Sea was also called Mare Internum (Inner Sea), and I adopt this name because all the elements of the collection come from the Mediterranean and, at the same time, represent the inner sea that we all carry within.

Nacre Crown
Spider crab,
noble pen shell, and
gold-plated brass
18 x 53,3 x14,5


Facing Coral
Coral and goldplated
brass
17 x 43,2 x 10

Tears of Coral
Coral and goldplated
brass
18,5 x 23,2 x 17,1

Tears of Coral (Less drama)
Coral and goldplated
brass
18,5 x 23,2 x 17,1

Long Nacre Heart
Noble pen shell and brass
35 x 51,1x 10

Nacre Heart
Noble pen shell and brass
13 x 61,4 x 10

Packaging

Nacre
Noble pen shell
22 x 22,5x 69

Nacre
Noble pen shell
22 x 22,5x 69

Marry the Wind
Slate and
gold-plated brass
17 x 24 x 8,6

Marry the Wind
Slate and
gold-plated brass
17 x 24 x 8,6

Grief
Slate and brass
37 x 61,8 x 15

Grief
Slate and brass
36 x 61,8 x 15

Grief
Slate and brass
38 x 61,8 x 15

Ears to the Sea
Abalone and gold-plated brass
19,5 x 21,3 x 10

Ear to the Sea
Abalone and brass
14 x 51,1 x 10

Armor
Edible crab and brass
18 x 51,1 x 10

Claws
Lobster and
gold-plated brass
17,5 x 26 x 10

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