Steampunk Sculptures

I've always been fascinated by stories of objects broken or stripped of their function; what I create, originates from there.

For me, Steampunk should be considered humankind's rediscovery of our awareness as creators, our moment of redemption.

I prefer to look for materials that would usually be considered not so noble, devoted more to playfulness than to art, a research that stems from a nostalgia towards something before the digital age, when if an object did not work it could (and it was known how to) be repaired.

Each piece has led me to rediscover a profession and learn something new, such as working with wood, metal, leather, even dismantling watches.

We should go back, whenever possible, to confronting ourselves directly with the materials, to get our hands dirty, fix, invent, build... this way, through objects, we can recover and preserve all that precious knowledge that risks to fade away due to reckless materialism.

My little creatures live in this suspended time, roaming the world curiously, constantly looking for whatever it is that makes us humans as we are, in a light-yet-playful / delicate-yet-persistent way.