CHAIRO NO BORO
A textile art work in development that materializes the poetics of wabi-sabi and mottainai by transforming the ephemeral into the permanent.
Core concept:
A traditional Japanese kimono constructed entirely from 456 used tea bags, dyed with natural indigo and assembled using the ancestral repair technique boro and sashiko embroidery.
A traditional Japanese kimono constructed entirely from 456 used tea bags, dyed with natural indigo and assembled using the ancestral repair technique boro and sashiko embroidery.
The work is in an advanced production phase. The project will include a lining printed using the paste-resist technique (kata-zome), incorporating literary and Zen quotes, establishing a dialogue between matter and word.
Measurements: Approx. 150 cm (length) × 150 cm (sleeve-to-sleeve width).
LATENCY
Textile collage
A hundred-year-old hemp cloth, passed down from other hands, now holds the imprint of eucalyptus branches. Over it, three silk veils with the same branches—smaller ones—stitched with only two stitches so they can move with the air.
Between them, embroidered threads mimic mycelium—that underground fungus that connects the roots of the forest—weaving invisible connections between what was, what is, and what is yet to grow.
In front of the fabric, a video shows the same forest from which the branches come: leaves falling, water flowing, light filtering through the trees. Everything in calm, everything in transition.
It is my way of saying that stopping is not wasting time. That beneath the stillness, a living network is preparing itself. That autumn, more than an end, is a nest.
THE BREATH OF DEMETER
Second piece of the triptych "The Weave of Everything". In progress
100 x 40 cm · Mixed media textile and organic assemblage · Woven on high-warp loom*
This tapestry materializes the organic life cycle: germination, growth, death, and rebirth. Taking its name from Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture, the work captures the seasonal rhythm as a cosmic breath that sustains life. Within the triptych "The Weave of Everything," it occupies the intermediate position between the mineral structure ("The Fire of Prometheus") and animal consciousness ("The Flight of Psyche").
This tapestry materializes the organic life cycle: germination, growth, death, and rebirth. Taking its name from Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture, the work captures the seasonal rhythm as a cosmic breath that sustains life. Within the triptych "The Weave of Everything," it occupies the intermediate position between the mineral structure ("The Fire of Prometheus") and animal consciousness ("The Flight of Psyche").
THE SKIN OF THE RITUAL
Series of 6 frames (20x20 cm)
This series explores the body of habit. The tea bags are the epidermis of a daily ritual, a paper skin that treasures the aroma of time. The crimson embroidery is the circulatory system of this body: a flow of thread that connects, nourishes, and gives new life to what is apparently empty. Each piece is a map of an intimate moment, where the domestic becomes sacred.
Shoal of Breeze
It is a whisper given form. A perfect circle floats in the air.
From its edge, threads of light are born—fine silver rays that gently pull the space downward, measuring gravity with delicacy.
On each thread, life multiplies. A constellation of tiny fish, ghosts of organza dyed with the blues of dusk, the greens of deep algae, and the reddish earth of the shore. They are not a school, but a pulse. Each one, a brushstroke of silk that captures and deflects light, dancing to the secret rhythm of the atmosphere.
The sculpture does not wait for the wind; it summons it. The lightest exhale, the mere passage of someone nearby, sets this suspended ecosystem in motion. That is when the mobile reveals its soul: a slow, hypnotic dance, a swaying of shadows and reflections where the silk fish seem to swim in the air itself, chasing one another in a silent dream.
And at the end of each silver thread, a small metallic stone—a point of stillness, a lunar pebble that anchors the dream to the earth, reminding us that all lightness has its counterweight.