The shop is a concept store called 'Negozio' which asks the question "How can art become a means of providing for myself and helping others across the globe while still remaining a place of play?" This platform responds to the many artists feel in directing their own careers. The proliferation of has been a direct response to the decentering of artists’ voices by the art market. Negozio follows in the footsteps of these experiments, revealing that the borderlines between work and leisure, artwork and life, are only as real as we make them. Part of the proceeds from each artwork are given to organizations that are connected to topics that originally inspired the collection.
Trade & Interior Designers Program
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- Break the Mold
- Dimmi, Amore
Negozio
Break the Mold
Agenda – Conscious Consumptiondeconstructs and reimagine traditions of craft by subverting the ethos of mass production. For this project, I engaged . The slip-casting process used for this group of works is common in commercial . For my series, I disrupted the process by removing the forms prematurely from the plaster molds, before their clay walls were fully hardened, and manually shaped their fragile forms into something unexpected. In this flimsy state, they were poked and prodded out of sameness, on their own feet.
Dimmi, Amore
Agenda – Peace“Dimmi amore”—in English, “tell me, my love”—is a phrase used often in Italy. Often, I am overwhelmed by this phrase, brought almost to tears by the simplicity and beauty of an invitation to speak.
