NOTEBOOK IV — THE SPACE

artist Manuela Metra hand covered in red clay during authentic wabi sabi creative process, denim apron detail
Notebook IV — The Space

Space.

With care.
Made to measure.

Attempts.
Mistakes.

Forms to keep.
Forms to let go.
Forms to discard.

Colours moving through pictorial space.

I choose.

What remains is the essential.

What I recognize as true.

Not perfect.

Born from a gesture.

From time.

From a relationship between the hand and the material.

Advice.

Opinions.

Expectations.

Forms already defined.

They seem easier.

At first, they seem right.

Then something begins to crack.

First, a space.

A time without words.

A necessary darkness.

Like a seed in the earth:

not absence.

Waiting.

The place where something begins to take shape

before it can be seen.

Silent.

Empty.

Permeable.

What kind of space?


Space

Cosmic.

and intimate.

Starlit.

Sidereal.

Luminous.

Half-light.

Shadow.

Undivided space.

White.

Black.

Earth.

Cerulean.

Sky.

Warm.

Cold.

Fertile?


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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.