Producing large scale artwork must require a large space or members to work in. How do you take on work with the team members?I work together with four assistants that help me to create the work. I am lucky and happy to work with a great team that supports my ideas, and always puts their souls into making the projects and works. I like to describe the team as an orchestra, sometimes unorganized, sometimes more planned, but an orchestra that works together to make the projects and explore these lands on the textiles we produce.
Most everyday carpets are in geometric designs but the carpets that you create are like paintings, with hills and thick grasses are expressed in three-dimensional detail. What do you believe that only carpet can best express?Carpets can express, yes, but I don’t think this is the only medium for my work. Yes, I work in this material but I think that a combination of the carpet making and other elements work together to achieve the message. I like to write, and I believe that my writing is also like my carpets, they are the same thing developed in one medium, revealing one message, one concept, one moment of thinking on entering a certain thought.
I always liked the carpet as a place where the place memory, where to compress a moment in time that one is eager to keep for long; in this way, I think that the carpet can act as a shelter, as a place where to come into this memory at any time, and revive the feelings, and the idea that one had being there.
I also think the concept of a carpet for a place to pray has influenced me in the last few years. I made a series of prayer rugs, which depict pieces of land which normally would not be attended, but that for me have a special beauty, a special complexion that makes them unique. I highlighted this with the prayer rugs and expect them to be an offering to nature, a place where to connect back to this land we are forgetting.