2019 Edition

Medusa’s Project is inspired by the ancient myth… a beautiful woman with beautiful hair that was transformed into serpents, she became a monster, then her image was idealized as a protective being, later represented as a femme fatal, with this contradictory connection between beauty and horror… The inspiration comes also by the jellyfish (translation for the Italian word medusa) which has a similar contradiction : beautiful but dangerous or even deadly if you go to close! We live in permanent contradictions: we want to be surrounded by beauty but by making beautiful things we are destroying our beautiful planet, air, water, plants, animals and human beings. We can transform this contradiction in a balance, like ying and yang. And Medusa can help with her transformative power! As the jellyfish, this project is very elastic and adaptable. Medusa can change shape and size depending on the waste we want to recycle, the community we want to help and work with, the functionality we want to give to the object we produce (lamp, furnishing accessory, vase…) I’m working harder on recycling since I moved to New York 4 years ago, when I was called to make the windows for the most high-end worldwide fashion brands, work I still do. As a side project I started to collect trash from this industry and start experimenting, obsessed with the idea of making art and design with 100% recycled materials and zero waste or heat production by processing the raw material. The making involves cutting, weaving, tie…I recycled various materials but now with guiltlessplastic I’m very exited to explore plastic and involve people that can benefit from the process.