Logos, o il filo del discorso.
When I began working on this project, in 2017, the intimate and ineffable element contained in the gesture of stitching the printed page (what Isabella Ducrot, referring to her fabrics, defined as "breath" or spirit) still eluded me. I had received an eighteenth-century book as a gift and one day, hesitantly, I began to interrupt those ancient letters through the rhythm of the needle. An embroidery on the page that recalls the Japanese art of sashiko and which, in its regular alternation of space and thread, brings out a different sequence of letters, a logos, or filo del discorso (literally “thread of discourse” meaning “train of thought”) capable of recomposing my inner space, reconstructing the language, but also holding things together. That stitching gesture has never stopped. Afterwards, I received other ancient books, each with its different weight of paper, each with its smell, its format and its peculiar history. The stitched pages have formed a "corpus", a work in progress which gradually has become richer in meaning. A work of the hands as well as the psyche. In collaboration with Roberto Rotoni, interior designer.
