Casa del pisello
(House of Green-pea), 1997
Knitting needles, silk thread, green-pea
35x35x35cm

Six knitting needles are forming a tetra- structure held together by four triangular pieces knitted of silk thread. Every piece has a different tone of green just as you can observe it on a green-pea. Together the triangular pieces create a green tetra-space. Aggressive and pricking at the outside, at the inside soften. Protective and atmospheric. In the Italian language green-pea 'pisello' signifies also the male sex in a light and ironic way. These qualities, this image is the materialisation of the contemplation of a green-pea. It is me gazing and thinking at something. It is my materialised relation to a green-pea and this materialised relation creates an habitat: the House of Green-pea. The loving look at things creates a specific site.

Green-pea Micro-world, 1999
Computer graphic
30x42cm

In a second moment in 1999 I have imagined a micro-world inside the inhabitant of this house. A world formed by a green ocean on which a green-pea is swimming. Perhaps in this green-pea we can imagine another world and so forth. The micro worlds are not realistic landscapes but 'monads', archetypes of the imagination of space, a sort of imaginary and creative spaces in which the mind can liberate al sorts of plays and fantasies in relation to a thing from an interior perspective. That means more a state of mind, the cosmos inside us stimulated in relation to a thing: a nice reason for imagination.