Traces III

In small-format works like the Traces series, the embroidery is born from a stain, an imperfection or a tear in the fabric.
The base fabric is sometimes stained by time, I use very old fabrics. Sometimes I reinforce stains on the fabric with ink or rust.
I am interested in fabrics that tell stories and I try to save the traces that time leaves on them.
I do this embroidery intuitively from my drawings and sketches on lichens, mosses and trunks.
Embroidery interests me not only because it is a versatile technique that offers me many aesthetic possibilities, but also because of the charge of memory that it carries within it: as if the thread could tell us the stories and the secrets of so many women from other times and other eras.
With free, spontaneous and carefree embroidery, I explore my own inner expression.
In embroidery, I rebel against imposed immediacy.