HOW TO MEND A PAIR OF SOCKS, watercolour on paper and pencil, 30/40cm, 2023

The series of drawings continues my interest in building up a drawing from repetitive marks.

Each drawing is composed of stains and hashtags - holes and stitches - made from watercolour spots and pencil repetitive lines.

The work is related also with my textile technical experiments and observations. One of them: while you intend to mend a piece of fabric that has one or several holes, you need first to strengthen the surrounding area of the broken part, in order to weave the missing fragment.

My association was with the dramatical or traumatic situations. It is necessary to bring favourable context such as the restoration and healing to occur.

The series of drawings has had as an inspiration and starting point a couple of old domestic found textile pieces. They were so heavily mended such as the woven part was almost completely restructured. The whole Japanese tradition of Boro I have read about, mingled up with the memories of my grandmother mending socks in the winter evenings.