Creative Impulse: In Depth Works

For decades, tradition and knowledge have always been transmitted from generations to generations in order to maintain our roots. In this way, the elderly generation is the one in charge of passing through customs and beliefs. With this idea in mind, I took my grandmother as the source of inspiration to create this piece. Being a seamstress at the age of thirteen, she has developed impressive craft skills with the use of fabric and thread.

I chose to represent her hands with the intention of use them as a symbol of dedication, work, and experience. Her hands are the most important and precious tool, and that's why I wanted to enhance them. Furthermore, the knitting (the patterns of the knitting vary in shape and size) and its ending in a tangled circle of threads metaphorically represents transformation. It is the transformation or metamorphosis that customs suffer through generations. There is not a constant unchangeable line in culture, but an evolution and variation of it from simple to complex. The painting framed in a circled embroidery hoop and the circle shape of the threads connected by the knitting creates a visual communication in similarity and transformation.