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Others would have tried to approach to it but without ever reaching it because a Forma or an “Idea” is tautologically unique and inimitable as a signature made by hand.
Maybe, it was a crazy ambition as crazy had been all my previous enterprises rewarded by success. It was a sane, determined, ruthless, craziness pushed by an inexhaustible power which fed it uninterrupted. An expressive energy which instilled itself into the precious but inactive material making it alive and palpitating.
I threw myself for nights and nights under hundreds kilograms of raw coral in the search of, amongst entangles branches, those which might contain the precious stone. That stone with the following features: compactness, crystalline, spotless, dark red like pigeon’s blood.
And every time, in those nights of art , I hoped that the process of osmosis between the coral and myself could realize. So, I worked endlessly with bated breath with a strong will which never stopped.
At the end, I gathered few hundreds stones which I had detached at the cutting wheel from the selected branches. Soon after, I modelled them with my own hands and fingers at the grinding wheel following an irrational instinct which made me create various shapes, sometime classic but of a personal style and sometime unusual and unplanned.
The “Idea” was then transmitted into details to clever artisans of jewels,(those few still existing on our territory). They learnt what I intended to obtain: the image of the conjunction between the earth and the sea through an emblematic symbolism made of gold, diamonds and corals put together in an all unique every time different and irreproducible jewel.
My wife Marisa, a high class designer and my partner in life and in art followed me in this new journey by advising the designers on how to complete the work just as I had imagined it in my mind.
Each item is different and unrepeatable even by myself because it is virtually inspired to the looks
of imaginary women who I had dreamt of or indistinctly seen during my journeys. Who knows whether any of them might recognise herself in her “jewel” asking me a confirmation.
Michele Scognamiglio
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