Workshop by UNIDEE resident Marica Vitas in collaboration with Fondo Edo Tempia
The workshop is focused on experiencing the path of Gorgomoro in Biella in a completely different way, to look at the elements that surround us from a different angle and find creative modes of using them, it involves the search for new patterns in nature for henna designs applicable in a group design to hands and feet. In exchange, Marica asks for stories/advice/tips from the participants for a good and happy life.
photographs by Sohail Azad
Marica is practicing henna (mehendi) designs inspired by nature, mostly by flowers and floral patterns. Her project is researching and exploring nature at a deeper level to discover new ways to create henna designs by using shadows of natural elements. This is a joint project by Marica Vitas and Muhammad Sohail Azad. Sohail is a Pakistani artist and has associations with henna through the culture of his country. Together they are creating interactive ways to invent new design strategies for henna designs.
Marica is also using henna designs as a medium of socializing through decoration of the body, engaging it with the local community in order to learn more about the stories of heritage and primordial knowledge. Now she is more interested in going back to the roots of all patterns, trying to convey new designs of henna by working with nature’s elements such as leaves, flowers and plants, which are common and can be found everywhere. She plays with these elements to discover new possibilities of developing more organic forms of work as the ground for cooperation between the two.
UNIDEE 2013 