The years between 1989-1993 Raced.

During the school period (my second scholastic foray, and that dedicated to the discovery of ceramics) I created a series of individual pieces in which I reinterpreted the forms and decorations of the ceramics of the Italian renaissance (see photo gallery "Traditional Inspiration". In that particular moment it seemed to me that it would be interesting to begin by studying the decoration of antique ceramics, in order to dissect and reimpose them upon forms which I created on the lathe. The forms that I chose to create derive in part from the Italian tradition, combining to create a mix between the renaissance and pre-Colombian American periods. The result seemed to me to be interesting and playful for certain of its aspects, and pure decorative exhibitionism for other aspects yet. As a result, at the end of the school year I continued on along the same path until I had exhausted all of the ideas that to me seemed important to underline, with the obvious exception of the serial production of the works themselves. Two days ago (in date February 2008...), I was proposed a similar re-interpretive project on behalf of a ceramics centre in China, though I think that from a certain type of tradition there's really no escape! I turn my thoughts to an exhibition of contemporary Australian ceramics that I saw at the Faenza Museum many years ago, and how it struck me that the absence of cumbersome traditions really can be a great advantage in terms of lightness and spontaneity. In having said this (still speaking as at date February 2008 from my Bergen Street apartment, Brooklyn) I continued my personal decorative research, inspired in part by the antique ceramic decorations reproposed by the ceramic workshops in the area around where I lived (and for which I worked) at least in part) but above all stimulated by a need to create as many pieces as possible in as little time as possible. In that particular period, I suffered from what could be described as productive voracity, with an ever present need to take on this new-found technique. Some examples are shown in the gallery "My Own Decorations". They are shown here without indication of size or technique because they serve only to describe in photographic terms that of which I speak.

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