Danila Narcisi

There is a precise point where creative freedom and discipline, imagination and technology meet themselves, turning an idea into an object.  Unfortunately, the artist and the conservator are unlikely to have the same idea of discipline.  For the conservator, paper is something to safeguard and maintain unchanged for as long as possible while, for the artist, paper is a medium to live, explore, and sometimes even mistreat.

The first one fights the paper's ephemeral nature, while the second embraces it.

As a conservator, I am aware of the mechanical and chemical balance that regulates (and ensures) the durability of an object on paper, and I would keep each sheet as aseptic as possible. I ask myself many questions about the possibility of combining different materials: instinctively I would test the acidity of everything I use...

As an artist, I live the fascination of an idea, an image, a composition or just a texture. Their implementation becomes priority over the chemistry of cellulose.

Of course many precautions can be adopted, but sometimes the creative process is in itself transgressive.

Where is the meeting point?