Did you feel that carpet would be the natural choice for your creations?No, carpets are not my natural choice at all. I am an artist that makes tapestries, carpets, I am a textile artist or a painter or a sculptress. I was trained as a painter, and skilled in sculpture and making techniques. I like to work with my hands a lot, I like to paint and draw, I am very interested in colour and perspective too. Every work we make at the studio has behind it hours of drawing, planning and deciding colours. I also like to work with technical challenges. I worked on some projects pushing the limits of carpet making, for example, making a shoe boat covered in carpet, and carpet 3D objects such as rocks and trees.
I always liked to think that an artist can work as other things, but always as an artist. I started working with carpets because it was a familiar medium. It had to do with available resources, and with the opportunity of putting in use something that was standing there.
When did the idea to use the excess yarn from the family factory to create artwork in carpet and tapestry come to you, and what were the circumstances behind it?I started experimenting in the family factory over ten years ago. Back then my father encouraged me to do something with all the stocked unused surplus wool from his factory. I started experimenting because of this in the family factory. I was finishing art school at that time and I had a big urge to include this material in my works. I also think that something deep inside draws me to doing so. Nowadays things are different, I don’t use the excess yarn from my dad’s former factory anymore, since unfortunately I have no access to this discarded yarn.