Subnivium. 2023.

Subnivium.

Size: 40x 68 x 3,5 cms. (approx.)

Mixed technique: Ecoprinting, painting, needle, wet and nuno felting, embroidery.

Materials: Silks (crepe, pongee, tussah, mulberry silk strands), wools (alpaca, 100% fine merino, bergshaf, corriedale), rose fibre, acrylic paint, cotton threads, silk threads.

Subnivium, the ephemeral and secret ecosystem that is full of life between the snowpack and the ground, a living space but unknown and hidden to our eyes.  This piece is a very tactile work in which textures, volumes, and colours of different layers of earth elements (rocks, soil, seeds, water, tunnels) are disposed on strata under a wide and heavy piece of white snow.