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Creative craft work for me is a sort of chromosomic predisposition, way far from the housewife hobby you're used to think of speaking about the crochet or the knit.

I've learned all about "yarns and tools" when i was a child, way before learning to read and write i was used to wield hooks, crochet forks, knitting tools and coloured yarns. For me it has always been my favourite way to express myself, and not a pleasant way to spend my freetime or to adorn my house or my clothes.
During 1999-2000 I started making very simple models of anthropomorphic figures and puppets in 3D development, using all I learned from the puppet teather about articulations, movement and expression.

 

 


On my other site, www.baronedirondo.com, you can find everything (works, techniques and didactics) about my dollmaking activity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The will to experiment shapes, volumes and colours led me to recreate common objects (flowers, food, shoes, hats, pots, fibre jewellery) and to invent new things: baskets, sculptured works, wall-hangings : soft objects which are funny to look at, to wear, to touch, to play with... useless objects to invent stories for.
In my works, it's very uncommon for me to follow a project or a premeditated design: the making of every single piece is determined especially by the yarns that I'm using. The colours and the momentary inspiration lead me.

Following the inspiration is the most interesting part of my work: it happens quite often that I start something without knowing what the result will be, especially for very big pieces, that need weeks to be finished. It happens also that I have to do and undo many times some parts, until they fit perfectly with the idea I want to express, other times I can start with a project and change it radically while working on it.

I'm very interested in the possibility of interaction with the objects that I create. In the meantime I like the possibility to explore the womanly and contemporary themes (the stereotype of the power of the woman's body, for example), using knit and crochet in a playful and unforeseen way.

 

 

left: Do you think I'm sexy?; 2005; crochetted and stuffed cotton yarn; cm. 40x25x20


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the last years I've experimented mixing very different yarns: cotton, every type of synthetic yarns,plastic yarns,metallic yarns, cables. In the big objects I've used mostly cotton yarns for practical reasons (brighter colours and lucid and flowing threads). I've never liked to work with wool, because I don't like opaque colours, and because it's too easy to ruin in the undo-redo process. Since when I became vegan, rejecting wool is an aware and morally significant choice.
All the pictures of the website reproduce objects made with cotton yarns.

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