Carving is not only cutting.
I do not cut off and compose with glue; I simply carve – cut ‘n lift, cut ‘n lift… – in real time with a blade only, white on white, in a meditative state. Not a single bit of paper is cut off from the paper, which is a single sheet of thick paper for watercolor. I sculpt the paper by carving it with a surgical blade, and that’s all. Every work is uniquely inspired and there is no copies, neither a pre-production study. Especially for abstract themes, I do not pre-study the composition: everything appears in the moment I carve. It’s about being in the presence of the Self. The paper I use is warm white (slightly ivory) and beauty is revealed by shadows and light, creating emotional effects through miniatures of the bas-relief. This makes my work extremely difficult to be photographed, because of the miniature, the result it’s often a plain white paper (these pictures have been taken with a non professional camera). The intent is to explore the potential of this technique’s beauty: colors change completely depending on the slant of light and paper, revealing natural ivory shades from inside the bas-reliefs, on the plain white paper. My parallel path as sound healer therapist deeply influences my activity: the amount of harmonic frequencies that my body contains in the moment I do carving, manifests Hamonia, made visible by the shape of logarithmic spirals, varying from very systematical patterns to more “caotic” panoramas. In each case, the subtle frequencies are always present, both from the smallest details to the general composition. From people’s reaction facing my artwork, in person, I’d say that my artworks can communicate to the emotional level of human body – that of the Heart – like do the singing bowls that I use in therapeutic sessions.I let the silence invades me and then it happens that visual poetry emerges, white on white.
Blades comes from my dad, a surgeon ophthalmologist; white from my mom’s candor;
Poetry from my grannies…
Therefore, my creativity is a gift from my family and every piece of Art that I create celebrate their memory.
In-depth infos
«Mine is a participatory meditation activity: when I finish and see what has emerged from the white of the medium, I am deeply grateful for the gift I received.
This practice is completely related to the vibrational state of my energetic body (called Aura): the higher and more harmonious the frequencies in which the aura vibrates, the greater is the harmony that manifests itself in complex, ordered and logarithmic mathematical shapes, perfect like mandalas.
Since the state of my Body is the result of my Being (influenced by the type of food, thoughts, activities and lifestyle) it can be said that the final work is nothing other than the manifest mirror of the work of art that I am, Me, as a Person.
As a sound healer and spiritual researcher, the relationship between lifestyle and environment is the research that I express through the medium of my Art, on matter, be it the material to be carved (paper and porcelain) or the human body (harmonic sessions). This – also and above all – I teach in my workshops, to those who desire to open themselves to the Knowledge of their Higher Self, feeling called by my Art or vibrating with Me. »
The Concept of Harmony and Science
Harmony is the mathematical law that expresses the golden proportions through specific intervals — the same found in Music — and perceptible through various channels of human sensoriality.
Below, we can see how the surface of water is the simplest way to reveal the visual form of sound emitted by a harmonic bowl, also known as “Tibetan” singing bowl, an instrument through which the
Artist conducts re‑harmonization sessions, acting upon the water molecules present in the human body and cleansing the subtle bio-fields.
Fundamentally, it can be said that Domitilla “visually plays” the paper by carving it.
In her works we find the presence of these torsional fields (called spin, in Physics), which lie at the foundation of the manifestation of form itself.
They are present everywhere in Nature’s organisms, which follow mathematical rules to develop everything that is born and evolves.
To follow a vital impulse means to dance to a rhythm, a law of Harmony that resides within each of us — and forms the basis of Well‑Being.
Every artwork vibrates with the energy of the artist who created it and enters into resonance with the corresponding energetic field of the observer, creating an energetic dialogue.
Light makes the difference
The paper‑poetry artwork you received deserves to show its uniqueness quality at its best and this totally depends on how it’s illuminated : you can see, in these 2 pictures below, how three‑dimensionality shifts depending on the angle of the light.
same artwork, illuminated with different lights
For the best effect, the illumination should be as lateral and oblique as possible, essential to fully enhance the miniature details.
Another important aspect is to avoid standard glass. Always opt for museum‑grade anti‑glare glass, otherwise the perception of the cuts and depth will be significantly diminished.
I prefer to enjoy them without any protection.