Technology: a useful source or a risk for art therapy?

Technology: a useful source or a risk for …

Online, something changes.

The material is still there, but it is no longer in the same space as me.

We each work with what we have in front of us.

I observe through the screen.

And I have realised that this distance cannot simply be ignored.

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The early autumn table

The early autumn table

September brings with it the warmth that summer has accumulated, to release it in the warm tones of which nature dresses. Here then is that the leaves are tinged with gold, yellow, ochre, red, the greens intensify and all around…

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The details that escape: the match-unmatchy set table

The details that escape: the match-unmatchy set table

A high table beside a low one.
A chair different from all the others.
A mismatched glass.
A plate from another set.
An object found, inherited, kept simply because someone loved it.

I am drawn to this kind of harmony, one that does not come from uniformity.

In my work, I call it matchy-unmatchy.

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Summer Tables

Summer Tables

Summer has arrived, you can feel it in the air, although this year it has appeared more silently and shyly than usual. After the lockdown, we resumed our habits, but not completely, with some adjustments. In this climate somewhat suspended…

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Change or transformation?

Change or transformation?

During this period of lockdown, our habits have inevitably undergone changes. We are grappling with a pandemic, an occurrence that doesn’t happen every day, to say the least. This state of isolation is prompting us to maintain social connections through…

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Great Expectations: a space between things

Great Expectations: a space between things

Winter, silence, fogged-up windows.
The scent of cinnamon: the candle.
The scent of pine: resin and needles.
A warm cup held between my hands, the one made in Tuscany, with shino glaze.
A slice of cake.

Pause.
Silence.

A moment in between.

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MANUELA METRA

Manuela Metra is a contemporary visual artist and Wabi-Sabi ceramic artist, graduated from the San Luca Academy of Fine Arts. For more than twenty-five years, she has developed an artistic practice that explores the visceral power of matter through contemporary sculpture, Zen aesthetics, and transformative processes. Her work is shaped using natural stoneware, wild clay, and pigments prepared by hand.

She is the founder of Celadon – Wabi Sabi Academy, a space devoted to the study of ceramics, material experimentation, and the exploration of the relationship between earth, water, and form.