The motif of this work originates in a childhood memory: carefully reaching for a prickly pear during the hot days of the South. The certainty that one must first overcome its spiky skin before it reveals its vibrant, juicy interior. It is the ritual of slicing open…

Opuntia translates the prickly pear landscape of southern Italy into a textile topography made of a tufted surface. The work arises from perceiving the prickly pear as an everyday yet culturally charged plant in the Mediterranean region – a plant that grows on borderlands, forms protection...

Caper examines Mediterranean vegetation as a system of adaptation, survival, and spatial organization. Observing the caper plant inspires a textile structure born from repetition and density, where growth is visible not as a linear process, but as an adaptation to confined conditions...

Pistillo addresses the fragility of ecological systems and the fine line between growth and decay. The starting point of the work is the blossom of the caper plant, whose brief appearance reveals a moment of particular vulnerability. The delicate structures of the blossom are...

Zeitenwende (Turning of an Era) is based on impressions from a summer hike through a partially cleared forest and the visible transformation of ecological landscapes in Germany. The starting point of the work was the experience of walking through a forest that felt simultaneously alive and damaged. Between...

Wundernetz (Miraculous Net) emerged from observing how much our daily lives shifted toward screens and digital spaces during the pandemic. Many experiences that were once taken for granted—touch, playing together, physical exploration—increasingly receded into the background. Out of this...