ON THE MAKING

Alice works with stub porcelain: she realizes thin surfaces that she handles and shapes with hands or with the help of chalk or wooden tools. To make her pieces coloured, Alice makes paste/dough colours: she measures and adds pigments to dry porcelain, to knead it again.

Alice prefers the “biscuit” surface that is cooked without glazes: at 1280 degrees the porcelain vitrifies and, if conveniently sanded, it becomes smooth and silky as a river stone.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Alice uses Limoges porcelain for its plasticity because her work undergoes the material to very high tensions that few clays are able to sustain. For thinner and more fragile objects, she uses paper-porcelain, which is a mix of porcelain and cellulose that allows obtaining translucent and lightweight surfaces.

MATERIAL FOR INTROSPECTION



Alice sees in porcelain endless possibilities and the perfect material to scope themes she cares very much, as fragility and ephemerality of everything. It’s a material she’s still studying and from which she’s still learning. Alice has learned to slow down with patience and care, essential to realize every single piece.