At twenty, I was curious, stubborn, and romantic. These traits, combined with chance, serendipitous encounters, and a deep passion, led me to become a beekeeper who for several years has been producing—or at least, sometimes, trying to produce—honey. After more...
Read MoreAt twenty, I was curious, stubborn, and romantic. These traits, combined with chance, serendipitous encounters, and a deep passion, led me to become a beekeeper who for several years has been producing—or at least, sometimes, trying to produce—honey. After more than a decade of professional work in the apiary, my practice has evolved where agricultural production meets the language of sculpture and design, giving life to the "Storie di Cera" (Stories of Wax) project.
This project is my story as a beekeeper, in which I rediscover that the honey I so deeply aspire to is preserved by the bees within the wax. And that the bees I love so much grow, transform, and are born inside a wax cell.
I realized that bees still amaze and astonish me. So, I decided to take a step back. Perhaps because I am no longer twenty, or perhaps because sometimes you have to slow down if you don't want to fall. I decided to give control back to the bees, and step by step, the "Storie di Cera" project was born.
I do not design definitive shapes; instead, I prepare traces. I place minimal structures into the hives: a wooden base, a cardboard cylinder, some wax. Only when they have the strength, during major nectar flows, do I leave the bees the time to inhabit and weave them with their unpredictable architecture of virgin wax. Each piece preserves the history, the scent, and the unforeseen events of the season in which it was built.
