DRITTES VIERTEL, GIBBOSA CALANTE, LAST QUARTER MOON.
Needle-work on cotton, embroidered by hand, 100 x 100 cm, 2012

The satellite that turns around the Earth has been observed from immemorial time. In this embroidery the shape of its surface is based on the lunar phases drawn by Galileo Galilei. Its dark side is filled with a selection of science fiction novels, where the Moon plays an important role in the narration.

Earth
Needlework on cotton, embroidered by hand,100 x 100 cm, 2012

Maps help us to find our position. They show the precise point where we are so that we can chart a route to where we want to go. Now-a-days maps made of paper have been outdated by newly invented devices that accomplish their original function. But a map is not only a tool to check a direction, an orientation, but it also expresses a way of thinking, a picture of the reality according to the moment.

This needlework is a map of our planet. The appearance of Earth is based on the drawing of Christopher and Ralph Scotese that shows how our planet will look 250 million years from now: a geography unfamiliar and unrecognisable to us.

On the embroidery is listed a selection of science fiction novels, all of them dealing with a future scenery where there isn't anymore the memory of a planet named Earth, or where it exists only in legends