lovely Valentine's Day!

With love and thoughts too all of you!

blue jar...

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red jar...

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moonlight...

A lovely moonlight in my hoods this evening.

teasing of Valentine's Day...

I´m more found of coffee but it always depend on the company in the end, and this evening I had great company over a glass of tea...

maximalist javisst!

This a collage for my pupils at the evening course, a compressed image of what I am doing...

To be curios is one of my catchwords, noting is too small or slightly not worth thinking about or use...

One call, dig where you stand! 

my new little owl heater friend!

I´m not sure that I could be without this kind of things in my life and apartment, it´s nice with a warm home and sometimes you need to get it from a technical thing as this heater... off course just for the winter period.

when I am thinking about how I work...

I have to recall that I am my own red tread in my work and life... The grass isn´t greener on the other side, only different...

All kind of things need to pass the funnel opening and come out as some kind of concentrate of all the things, ideas and so on...

sunlight!

Finally we got light!!!

The sun is here again and the hope of spring and summer is around the corner...

insular...

Faces in my surrounding...

I see faces in unexpected places, this one I thought looks like someone with a big brain, a square thinking brain... I think it funny to play with the thoughts of faces... for someone it is just an ordinary hock and for me a figure that can´t thinking out of the box.

pastime...

Playing with a drawing program in the computer, just a pastime...

I use to draw and play in a drawing program, just to clean my thoughts and maybe if I have luck, come up with something that leads me in a direction that I can use. This I have no idea how to use, but in some way it gets a little bite cute however.

a night view...

Now the winter finally has come to Gothenburg, in the end of January the snow have cover our landscape, it´s beautiful to look at but horrible to walk in... it´s just slush all over the roads. 

a part of...

I´m absolutely sure that this will show up somewhere in my coming up jewellery for my collaboration project...

a small pen bird...

I just take what I found... A small piece of an unusable pen and some glass beads and Pipe Cleaners...

a everyday citation...

I catch this citation on my bread and butter work and now I have it on my working station, it is so funny I think; sometimes you always have wrong. I love when this kind of slip of the tongue pop up!

some of the pieces that I will be represented with...

Press Release

“Gioielli alternativi: ingegno e creatività indossabile”

(“Unconventional Jewels: Wearable Talent and Creativity” )

The exhibition "Unconventional Jewels: Wearable Talent and Creativity", hosted at Abilmente on the

Vicenza fairgrounds, is dedicated to body ornaments testifying to the happy mix between manual skills

and courageous insights gaining their strength from artist’s experiences, preferences and personal

histories.

Curated by Nunzia De Feo is organized by associazione Nurò established in Verona, that aims to enhance

The more than one hundred works that will be presented, created ​​by 38 artists from various countries, in their wearability, meet the need, as old as humanity, to create artifacts with which to inevitably communicate fragments of real life stories and for this reason authentic .

As stated by one of the participants, the London based artist-goldsmith Joanne Haywood in her

interesting book "Mixed-media Jewellery", there is no limit to the choice of materials to use. The rings,

bracelets, necklaces, earrings and brooches exhibited are made ​​of ceramic, fiber, yarn, horn, leather,

plastics, metals, wood, resin, silicone, enamels and fabrics, sometimes recycled and used in different

ways to produce innovative solutions. Metal is not one of the preferred choices and is often absent or relegated to a marginal role.

In light of this consideration, the link is evident between this show and Abilmente, place of choice for

fresh and important encounters with materials and experiences and with the objects of the workshops which characterize this fair.

In conclusion, these "unconventional jewels" possess an intriguing and captivating charm, sometimes

as naive as disarming. They are characterized by a narrative or abstract language rich of symbolic or

onceptual references and by a raw, bitter , pungent, or sometimes, by contrast, graceful, kind and

almost childlike aesthetic. They offer rare moments of intellectual and spiritual empathy to visitors. They are "little living worlds" capable of awakening dormant emotions, never suspected inclinations and reflect today's contemporaneity crossed by the incessant demand for vitality and positive zeal.

Participants

Next to established artists from the international contemporary world such as the Dutch / Argentinean Luis Acosta, the Italian Corrado De Meo, the English Joanne Haywood and Elizabeht Bone, the Japanese Mikiko Minewaki , appear new recruits who have already drawn the attention of the public, of experts and the press: the young French Marion De la Rue whose porcelain necklace, which will be on display at Abilmente, appeared in Vogue Gioiello May 2013 to end with the English Elizabeth Campbell, Jelka Quintelier, Liz Hamman, the Canadian Louise Perrone, the American beading teacher Aurelio Castano and the Suisse Iulie Usel, all widely acclaimed by the critics of their countries of origin and not only.Acosta Luis (AR/NL), Alvarez Patricia (AR), Alvarez Main Rafael Luis (AR), Bartos Agata (PL), Bone Elizabeth (UK), Busnel Isabelle (UK), Campbell Elizabeth (UK), Castano Aurelio (USA), Cruz Patricia (IT), De Feo Nunzia (IT), Delarue Marion (FR), De Meo Corrado (IT), Del Papa Clara (IT), Esser Suzanne (NL), Girardello Resi (IT), Giusti Laura (AR), Hadass Marianna (UK), Hamman Liz (UK), Haywood Joanne (UK), Isola Paula (AR), Laserbean (UK), Lindblom Paula (SE), Marcenaro Francesca (IT/UK), Martinez Rita (CR/IT), McLean Robyn (UK), Mikiko Minewaki (JP), Mongelli Maria Rosa (AR), Perrone Louise (CA), Quintelier Jelka (UK), Romano Wanda (IT), Swing Kit (UK), Uniqeco (FI ), Usel Iulie (UK), Valencia Stella (CR), Vinci Monica (IT), Violante Iolanda (IT), Woo Seo Jeong (KR), Zucchi Melania (IT)

Associazione Nurò

Associazione Nurò, born in Verona in January 2013, aims to be a driving force in order to promote an

intensive cultural exchange between artists of different nationalities and to allow the general public to accost the interesting world of contemporary jewelry. In its mission hopes collaborations with public and private institutions.

Nunzia De Feo

After having studied goldsmith techniques and improving her knowledge of art and designer jewelry

in different European cities (London, Padova, Salzburg and Vicenza), the artist jewelry designer and

maker Nunzia De Feo created the NDF bijoux brand in 2011 (www.nundefeo.com). Forever fascinated by colors and unusual materials she has always maintained a preference for craftsmanship, innovation and creativity. In 2013, together with other founders, she founded associazione Nurò for which she has curated several exhibitions and workshops on contemporary jewelry.

Reference:

Haywood, J., 2009. Mixed-media Jewellery: Methods and Techniques (Design and Make). London:

Bloomsbury.

Nunzia De Feo

Translation: Alessandra Gates

Via Filippini, n12

37121 Verona

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ABILMENTE

ORARIO APERTURA

Tutti i giorni orario continuato: 9.30 – 19.00

INGRESSO

Intero: € 12,00

Ridotto: € 10,00 ragazzi tra i 13 e i 18 anni,

over 60, gruppi superiori alle 25 persone, preregistrazioni

sul sito della ma-nifestazione e

depliant promozionali.

Ridotto: € 9,00 possessori di carta Famila ed

Emisfero. Una tessera vale per l’ingresso di una persona.

Ingresso gratuito: bambini tra gli 0 e i 12 anni (compresi), disabili e relativi

accompagnatori.

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now some of my wishes will come true...

I got this ribbon from Bahia, Brazil when I was at the workshop in Ravenstein, Then Netherlands in August and today the ribbon broken and the wishes will come true...  I´m superstition so I believe that some great things will happen. I cross my fingers for my wishes.

a weekend with two of my freinds...

Café Hängmattan... in my hoods.

This weekend I have meet two of my friends, it felt like a long time since the last time I saw them, but as I think, friends are like stars, you know they are out there somewhere but you don´t  always see them.  For me it´s important to keep in touch and have small talks over a coffee or a walk... Saturday it was a regular fika in one of my café places in my hoods and today I took a walk in one of my favorite areas close to my hoods, the Klippan and Röda Sten area. We ended up on the amazing steamboat café where the Santa's  still stay... It´s nice to have time to catch up.