The love for our planet made me rethink about the concept of raw material, transforming my artworks into real sustainability messages, and most of all into concrete actions. After long researches I managed to substitute the usual painting canvas with a fabric called “Vita” (Italian word for “Life”) made by an Italian company called Carvico. This fabric is produced by collecting abandoned fishing nets from the bottom of the oceans, and turning them into wonderful fabrics that find lots of uses, especially in the fashion industry.

During the painting phase I use, together with the classic instruments like brushes and palette knives, several types of recycled plastics from logistic services, plastic bags and wrap, such as the plastic panels built using 100% recycled materials from single-use plastic bottles, produced by an Italian company called Alisea.

I also use other types of production scraps materials from building companies such as nets and plasterboards parts, recycled paints and vinyl glue that comes from the remainders of a company that produces pharmaceutical boxes. The wood I use to build the wooden stretchers comes from carpenter’s shops scraps, glued together to form some new panels that can be then cut into solid strips, assembled together to hold the fabric I use to paint on.