Serie "Garden Window"

These three images came about as a collaboration on Instagram (2022)

ALICE MARELLA

She works with floral pigments, plant fibres, and many other natural materials. We edited a photo of one of her works into a series of images together, and then published them on our accounts. Alice created a video with some music for this post.

My version of our piece was displayed in a local ceramics workshop as a triptych:

To our suprise, by sheer coincidence, we both exhibited some of our work independently on the same week-end in 2024. Her installation was in Mantova, Italy, and mine here in Waldkirch (Germany).

We only found out because we both contacted the other to ask if we could include the work, and the little poem that went along with it:

Few flowers of you
in me will be a garden
and specks of grime
through grubby panes
become pinned stars
with hopes for sunrise

I tuoi vetri
si faranno serra per l'inverno
facciamo una passeggiata 
io da questa e tu dall'altra parte
raccogliamo pezzi di radioso dal
fango
piantiamo semi 
informazioni cosmiche
sorrisi di gratitudine

Below is a picture she sent me of her own multi-media installation, in an exposition that was held in the Torrazzo Gonzaghesco, a medieval tower!

I’m really grateful to Alice, for her trust and her friendly initiative in working on this with me. We got so many friendly and encouraging comments on this post!