His unusual and eyecatching work joins vintage photographs and embroidery. His search for what he calls a ‘blank canvas’ occurs in flea markets and car boot sales and he has a particular interest in using portrait photographs from the 1930’s and 1940’s.
His embroidery takes an intricate abstract design which is sewn directly onto the surface of the photograph.
The only rule Marizio works to is leave one or both eyes open. He takes inspiration for his embroidery design from many different sources, never one particular thing, he painstakingly marks out the stitch holes before he begins his embroidery, which only takes place after much planning and his choice of thread is synthetic hair. The designs reflect the moment the photograph has captured, or what Maurizio has read of the moment.
His work strangely fascinated and intrigued me, capturing and focusing in on a moment in time, I wondered about the subjects, the people in Maurizio’s photographs are anonomous to him, we don’t know anything of their past or what happened in their future or of the moment when the photograph was taken or why it came to be found with discarded lamps and broken toys in a car boot sale. Yet years later they have become immortilised in his art. If only they knew.
Maurizio's work is far far more interesting than my tester, you can find out more about him here
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