Since I was a child I remember my relationship with everything I encountered through the mediation of smell. I used to smell everything in a natural automatism. Since 2019 I have been looking for some archetypes of olfactory language and I have come to the first results that I wanted to gather under the name of Odorarium.
Odorarium wants to be a first approach to the universe of smells. It speaks of historical memory but, above all, personal. It speaks of hereditary concatenations, emotional feelings of crying, laughter, happiness, anguish, nostalgia.
Smells, scents, aromas that are in my cultural background, that have accompanied my life paths, created my image and contributed to the perception of myself and the others.
Smell and feeling have always had a profound relationship. When we feel melancholically alone we seek company in the scent of the person who is not there with us.
A moment experienced is linked to a scent that affects the heart which memorizes it. Remembering the scent reverses the process and makes you travel backwards to catch that moment in your memory.
But how to physicalize a perfume, a sensation?
The composition of the perfume itself (head, heart and base) suggests the path.
The first impact with the perfume goes to the head, to the activation of the memory of the moment to move on to the load of feelings (heart) that it brings. The activation of the memory and the images that accompany it dig deeply to guarantee the continuity of the sensation that finds expression in the artistic representation of an object.
Alter Mundi Collection -The Awapa
The shamans, like the curanderos, were important figures in all the indigenous communities of Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, unfortunately persecuted and even murdered when the Spanish conquerers arrived. Fortunately, later, when Catholic priests realized the similarity of indigenous beliefs and practices with theirs, there was a relative integration.
The Awapa are the shamans of the Bribris, people of Talamanca, Costa Rica. As in any shamanic religion, the Awapa are the connection between the physical and spiritual world. Each Awapa has some magical stones (siah) which he wears around his neck and which he uses for different healing interventions.
Interesting in the Bribris beliefs is the concept of the opposite, whereby in the spiritual world every thing or living being is diametrically the opposite of what is seen on earth
Dantesca Collection
I wanted to reinterpret the well-known triad of Dante's beasts beyond the simple allegorical correlation to the three deadly sins. I chose to convey a message of hope and give light to the Jungian demonic shadow, generally dormant or unconsciously reflected in others, but rarely present in the conscience of individuals. So I accompanied the allegorical image of the beasts (inner demons) with flowers as representative of rebirth, of spring, of a conscious explosion of one's own inner conflict with the consequent happy balancing of two opposite presences.
Maldita Primavera Collection
Alchemy has as its essential reason the transmutability of common metals towards higher planes of these and even life itself (the philosopher's stone). In the process, they can be brought back, transformed, and endowed with other qualities. Perhaps that is why the alchemical operation appears as an imitation and reproduction of the original creative process, we do not know, we are about to discover it by letting it flow.
When it flows, bodies are freed from their limitations, their weights, their corporality to open the way to the deepest: consciousness, disorder and balance again, a game between the triad of spirituality, magic and astrology that together change the perspectives between heaven and earth, balances and what we might think we know.
This magic of transformation has been associated to something dark and mysterious since Christianity and hence its negative connotation, as well as white magic that, despite its healing properties and knowledge, was also prohibited.
Ex Voto Collection
In the last two years, global health has affected everyone's life, not only in terms of work, but also in social, family, physical and psychological terms, leaving terrifying consequences at times.
Broken hearts, lack of air, tears, forced segregation have made us feel helpless facing something stronger, but it has led us to prayer, to hope, to entrust ourselves to another equal or even greater to intercede or help us along the way.
The ex voto, present in the traditions of many peoples for centuries, like the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians, fulfill precisely this function. But beyond being exhausted in the process (tragic event - votive offer - request for intervention - fulfillment), they continue in the exposition of the voto to close a path and symbolize a restart towards new wings, new flights, love, hugs and hope.
This is the deep symbolic meaning of such a belief, a means for the mind, like a mantra, that I wanted to give to the ex-voto for my son, a sailor crossing the ocean, looking for a new life.
Divino Inferno Oxymoron Collection
An oxymoron is the deliberate juxtaposing of seemingly contradictory words. From Greek - oxys, meaning "sharp", and moros, meaning "foolish"
In her introspective work, Rita tries to represent the dark side, 'Secretum' of the deep with primary images, demonic archetypes, however without a Manichean approach. She simply sees it as an acceptable part of our existence. Thanks to the mediation of feeling, the dark lights up, leaves the unsolved, mixes the material, associates elements and takes light and form: it lives its divine moment.
Rêverie Collection
The symbolic presence of a past, as the image of a flower or a flight, relives reinterpreted in a state of rêverie, experienced as a fantastic, conscious, light-hearted waking dream.
The Curandera Collection
The Curandera/o, who is usually reductively related to the western figure of a doctor, in Latin America represents someone with more extensive powers and tasks.
Beyond physical healing, the curandera/o also takes care of the spiritual dimension of people and to do this she/he uses herbs and performs rituals.
But her/his function also extends to all the members of the community who, thanks to her/his power, are helped to build and maintain a new, peaceful, empathetic relationship with their peers and the nature that surrounds them.
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Wunderkammer Collection
The Word “Wunderkammer” literally means “the room of wonders” and represents a container, a place, a space where dozens, hundreds, thousands of things are kept. They are real or imaginary objects which create an overwhelming attraction and embody fantasies, dreams and obsessions.
The Wunderkammer is a microcosm, a kind of museum-non museum, a play of mirrors, of recalls where getting lost is so wonderful. The room develops and gets a shape along with its creator who becomes its soul, its engine, its body, its arms and means of collection.
Hidden Jewels Collection
Away from the touristy tracks there is a hidden architectonic treasure which offers from its top an astonishing view of Venetian roofs.
The multi-arch staircase leads us to the discovery of further hidden jewels: frescoes which peep out to claim their shy, walled existence. At every corner, at every step, our spirit gets raptured by moments of unforgettable magic.
The collection wanted to give voice to these and, through them, allow a revival of the fusions of style: the gothic of the building technique, the renaissance of the capitals and the Venetian-Byzantine of the palace and staircase shape, choosing gold as a dominant color, according to the medieval tradition, for the preciosity of the work, the light of the alternated void and full spaces and the unexpected pleasure to the visitor’s view.
Plants For Dreaming Collection
As a natural follow-up to the Curandera project, whose goal was to present the healing figure of herbs and those who administered them, caring both for the physical and the socio-spiritual well-being of the patient, with the new Plants for Dreaming collection I intend to go more specifically into hallucinogenic plants, in particular the mandrake, the belladonna and the Henbane.
Common to hallucinogenic substances is the stimulation and alteration of sensory perception, more of sight and hearing, but also of taste, smell and touch. They bring about a change in the wavelength of the reception of the world and of the self with the creation of new and different images of what surrounds us, which justifies the sacredness, the magic and the mystery that plants have had, and still have, in the history of humanity. For this reason they were also known as 'plants of the gods' as they helped humans to deepen natural phenomena, bringing them into communication with the spiritual world.
I don’t like sweets Collection
The idea of the collection was born from my curious approach to the elegance of the color, the simple form and the artistic texture of a sweet and at the same time from my dislike for desserts in general. A "contradiction" which develops and ends in a "curative" resolution through the physical representation of a placebo effect. It is one of the themes I have been trying to embody in my jewels.
Verona Bella Collection
My adopted city, enchanting, magical, romantic, so full of colors takes me by the hand and accompanies me through its streets scented with coffee, showing you palaces, frescoes, bridges, churches, squares, open-air museums, She welcomed me as a daughter and I learned to love her as a mother, but also as a sister, friend, accomplice of sleepless nights in the summer evenings and companion of escapes away from the winter rain. I was very proud of her.