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PAX of Beatus, 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021
February 24, 2021

The Trouble with Pink

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“THE ORDER,” a 3d ceramic series begun in the Summer of 2020 during my complete isolation during Covid, was all black and white. It sprang from memories of being put into a French convent La Rochelle at age five.

When Biden became President, I was greatly relieved after all the tumult & ugliness for so long. I started seeing pink. That’s how things begin for me…I see a color or shape in my dreams, my walks, or doing something mundane like the laundry. 

I have an uncomfortable relationship with pink. Pink…the symbolic color of tenderness, affection, romance and peace. PAX, Latin for peace. PAX be with you. Pink the soother, has been definitively linked to toning down aggression, and its use in holding cells for violent criminals.

Pink for me however has another meaning: my mother, Beatrice. It was her favorite color and therefore I wanted nothing to do with it.

PAX of Beatus, 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021

PAX of Beatus (a different iteration), 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021

Pink is too frivolous for my pragmatic nature but far worse, painful. In 2018 I tried a few pieces in pink (you can see those on my Instagram feed: @filippucciart). Beatrice no longer walks the earth but when she did one could describe her as a wild boar in pink. A confusing dichotomy. You thought “pretty lady” but under the pink was a tough personality, a bristling, masculine Joan Crawford of judgement and meanness. The least maternal person you could imagine but there she was, a blonde in pink wearing pink lipstick.

Here’s why using the color pink in my work – with all its subtle iterations – helped me better understand her.

PAX of Beatus (a different iteration), 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021

PAX of Beatus (a different iteration), 3d porcelain ceramic ©FILIPPUCCI 2021

After creating numerous pink cloth studies over the last few months, some insight arrived. Not all at once, mind you. It kept tugging at me until I got it. My mother wore pink because that’s what she wanted to be. She wanted to be affectionate and peaceful and pink but because of an undiagnosed personality disorder, was the opposite. The total opposite.

I will only say this. Art saved me from pink, got me away from it, and then brought me right back to it. Finally, I did not look away. You could say that I found my inner pinkness. I am not afraid of pink any more. To Beatrice…PAX be with you.


Flying Nun, Summer 2020. 3D study for a large ceramic sculpture-FILIPPUCCI 2020
August 19, 2020

Contemporary Ceramics

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New work from the quiet isolation of the Spring and Summer of 2020. This Series is built upon the impressions of a five year old in La Rochelle, France, where – for awhile – I was put into the custody of nuns who lived in a medieval convent. 

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Forgotten laundry in Santa Fe, New Mexico 2020

CORRIDORS & SHROUDS

Rag, Santa Fe NM Summer 2020 - FILIPPUCCI

Rag, Santa Fe 2020

The impressions began with walks in neighborhood cul-de-sacs where I noticed pieces of cloth. I would notice one, then another, and another. In New Mexico, many still put their laundry out to dry, often draped over a fence or stone wall. Sometimes, these are forgotten…left there to fade into the seasons. Couldn’t tell you why rags and laundry caught my attention but once you start noticing something, there’s a reason.

In the quiet of this pandemic, my dreaming revealed corridors and shrouds. My waking now held terrors. Abandonment, loneliness. I resisted remembering until those terrified little girl memories of flapping cloth creatures emerged forcefully, impatient with all the waiting. From bundles of rags, I “saw” fabric – copious, flowing, mysterious – rise into form.

As a 5 year old, I struggled to grasp that real women were under all that drapery. I could ask nothing for speaking was discouraged. Other than the perpetually seated Abbess, this community of French nuns was always in a hurry, dashing and darting with bundles, parcels and mops. Incessantly toiling. Like household gods, each was a silent expert at what they did. You said little, did much. They were frighteningly beautiful blurs, smudges of white and black. Everything in its place, everything in order.  

CERAMIC | The Novitiate - Sandra Filippucci 2020

©Sandra Filippucci 2020

Wearing different habits to denote their status, there was a distinct hierarchy within this community, and you quickly learned who was at top, and who did the laundry. They all commanded their space wherever they were or whatever their assignment was – all knowing, all powerful but in fact, many years ago nuns had little to no power within the church. I’m not sure they even do now. These obedient women were consecrated worker ants, always minding the time, polishing and starching as they noiselessly prayed.

Decades later, I remember those figures of cloth rushing down ancient corridors, making sounds like the sails on fishing boats in the La Rochelle harbor.

WHY CERAMICS

The shrouds in corridors became sculptures of cloth. Since I work with 3D programs, I began assembling fabric in an abstracted manner but still figurative. Joan of Arc has been my primary subject matter for so long that this different way of working startled me. The work just became. And it wanted to be ceramic. This is what led to that.

I’d been to a lecture in Taos at the Harwood Museum in 2019 organized by Ann Landi of Vasari21.com, on the Evolution of Art Criticism, which included panelists Peter Plagens, Laurie Fendrich, Lucy Lippard and Garth Clark. Garth Clark is a distinguished writer, curator and lecturer on modern and contemporary ceramic art. I was galvanized by his understanding of this medium, which I never seriously considered. I bought his 2003 book, “Shards,” and wondered when and how I would produce ceramics.

CERAMIC | The Worker - Sandra Filippucci 2020

©Sandra Filippucci 2020

This new body of work, “Sisters of the Cloth,” can only exist as 3d printed ceramics. Some pieces appear simple, but are in fact, quite complex. Created with 3d software, they are well-suited to 3d printing. The process will involve clay extruding to the largest size, and then combining the sections into life-size sculptures. They will be fired like pottery, and then hand-glazed. They can be constructed with permeating resins for outdoors, hung on walls, suspended from ceilings. Editioned smaller pieces will come first, because when working this way, each side must translate well.

Ceramic always suggests fragility. These iterations of fresh novitiates, postulants and weary old nuns wearing extraordinary hats no longer exist in the real world. The habits they wore have virtually disappeared. These are the impressions of shapes – sometimes apparitions – from a five-year old mind. I have harbored these windswept impressions over a lifetime and, like the statuary that filled their Medieval convent, these pieces are a kind of vesper, a chant from the sanctuary of dreams. 

The Abbess - Sandra Filippucci 2020

The Abbess – ©Sandra Filippucci 2020


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Ukraine Flower Series: “Theatre Rubble Two,” J Ukraine Flower Series: “Theatre Rubble Two,” June 2022. Mixed media on custom braced panel. 42” x 60.” So you know the theater in Mariupol, Ukraine where residents taking shelter wrote outside (in Ukrainian) on the pavement in giant letters “CHILDREN?” It still got bombed. They don’t know how many died there still because of so much rubble. I saw this in primary colors. I saw my simple flower distorted. Am filled with sorrow and anger. @filippucciart 🇺🇦#ukraine #artforukraine #worldkitchen #warinukraine #contemporaryartist #contemporarypaintingartist #childreninwar #mariupol #mixedmedia #connecticutartist #galleryart #nowar
Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - Drama Theat Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - Drama Theater.” Mixed media on rag paper, 40” x 60.” The March 16 bombing of Mariupol’s Drama Theater, where Ukrainian officials say up to 1,300 had sought refuge, was among the most brazen of Russia’s attacks on civilians since its invasion
began in late February.

Russia denied its forces hit the theater, claiming that the Azov battalion, the Ukrainian army’s main presence in Mariupol, blew it up. @filippucciart 🇺🇦 #ukraine #ukraineinvasion #warinukraine #war #bravery #contemporaryartist #worksonpaper #worldcentralkitchen
Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - National Li Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - National Library,” May 2022.  Mixed media on rag paper. 40” x 60.” On the night of May 7, 2022, Russia's missile strike directly hit the National Literary and Memorial Museum of Hryhorii Skovoroda, in the village of Skovorodynivka, Kharkiv. @filippucciart 🇺🇦 #kharkiv #ukraine #ukrainewar  #putinswar #putinwarcriminal #contemporarydrawing #contemporaryartist #bravery
Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - Living Quar Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - Living Quarters,” May 2022. Mixed media on rag, 40” x 60.” The work I keep hearing is “rubble.” This whole body of work (I know, I have to catch up on posting cause there’s a lot of work) is related to my mother who survived WWII in London. She was British. How many times did she tell me of families, blocks, buildings that disappeared? All reduced to rubble. I see the War in Ukraine through my mothers eyes. She loved flowers and the cultural icon for Ukraine is the sunflower.  @filippucciart 🇺🇦 #ukraine #war #flowerstagram #costofwar #zelenskyy #wwii #wars #reducedtorubble #contemporaryartist
UKRAINE FLOWER SERIES “Lviv,” March 31, 2022. UKRAINE FLOWER SERIES “Lviv,” March 31, 2022. 40”x 60” on panel. My WASP 3D clay printer arrives tomorrow and this will be the first flower sculpture I’ll make. The background on this piece was made with clay paint. 🔌 @filippucciart #worksonpaper #contemporaryart #instagood #instaart #figurativeart #instaart #ukraineflowers #lviv #3dprinting #wasp3d #3d #3dclay #picosolutions #clay #bioshieldpaint
WOMAN WARRIOR CHESS SET NFT: “RED KING CLOTILDA. WOMAN WARRIOR CHESS SET NFT: “RED KING CLOTILDA.”

Clotilda was a 5th Century Queen of the Franks – a Germanic-speaking people who invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. She was a queen who behaved like a king. Clotilda bore 4 sons, 3 of whom became Kings, and she was known for her generosity and her political astuteness. She was literally a kingmaker the power behind the throne, and to this creator, a king herself. In the 5th Century, medieval women wore extraordinary hats and elaborate gowns. This is an original fantasy 3d creation inspired by Japanese kimonos, which also appeared in the 5th Century in Japan. Clotilda is buried in Paris.
 
https://solsea.io/collection/623e4d3e4ec24206b3ba4dcc 

♟♟♟♟@filippucciart ♟ #chess #womanwarrior #nft #solana #solananft #animation #crypto #cryptoartist #sol #womenincrypto #womensupportingwomen #carbonneutral #nftartists
UKRAINE FLOWER SERIES. Five days after Ukraine wa UKRAINE FLOWER SERIES.  Five days after Ukraine was attacked, I began these flowers. Each is named after a city or place bombed by Putin. On March 4, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught fire during an attack by Russian forces. Words fail. “Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,” 2022. Mixed media on rag paper, 40” x 60.” @filippucciart 🌻🌻#ukraine #nomorewar #zelensky #courage #flowers #peaceforukraine #peace #zaporizhzhia #nuclearpowerplant #contemporarydrawings
“Kiev,” March 2022, 40”x60.” The lily is a “Kiev,” March 2022, 40”x60.” The lily is a symbol of peace but the lily can have thorns. @filippucciart 🌻🌻🌻 #worksonpaper #contemporarypainting #pax #peace #peaceforukraine #fuckputin #prayforukraine  #totalitarianism #ukraineflowers
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Contemporary American artist based in Connecticut. 3d printed sculptures, painting, drawing. Part of a group of New York artists working with technology since the mid-eighties and was the first artist to have a digitally based solo exhibition at The Museum of American Illustration in Manhattan.

Ukraine Flower Series: “Theater Rubble One,” J Ukraine Flower Series: “Theater Rubble One,” June 2022. Mixed media on custom braced panel, 42” x 60.” Despite residents sheltering in a theater in Mariupol - writing in giant letters in the road “children,” they still got bombed. @filippucciart 🇺🇦 #ukrainewar #ukraineinvasion #nowar #warzone #childreninwar #warinukraine #connecticutartist #contemporaryabstract #worldkitchen #mariupol #fightingforfreedom #primarycolors
Ukraine Flower Series: “Theatre Rubble Two,” J Ukraine Flower Series: “Theatre Rubble Two,” June 2022. Mixed media on custom braced panel. 42” x 60.” So you know the theater in Mariupol, Ukraine where residents taking shelter wrote outside (in Ukrainian) on the pavement in giant letters “CHILDREN?” It still got bombed. They don’t know how many died there still because of so much rubble. I saw this in primary colors. I saw my simple flower distorted. Am filled with sorrow and anger. @filippucciart 🇺🇦#ukraine #artforukraine #worldkitchen #warinukraine #contemporaryartist #contemporarypaintingartist #childreninwar #mariupol #mixedmedia #connecticutartist #galleryart #nowar
Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - Drama Theat Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - Drama Theater.” Mixed media on rag paper, 40” x 60.” The March 16 bombing of Mariupol’s Drama Theater, where Ukrainian officials say up to 1,300 had sought refuge, was among the most brazen of Russia’s attacks on civilians since its invasion
began in late February.

Russia denied its forces hit the theater, claiming that the Azov battalion, the Ukrainian army’s main presence in Mariupol, blew it up. @filippucciart 🇺🇦 #ukraine #ukraineinvasion #warinukraine #war #bravery #contemporaryartist #worksonpaper #worldcentralkitchen
Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - National Li Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - National Library,” May 2022.  Mixed media on rag paper. 40” x 60.” On the night of May 7, 2022, Russia's missile strike directly hit the National Literary and Memorial Museum of Hryhorii Skovoroda, in the village of Skovorodynivka, Kharkiv. @filippucciart 🇺🇦 #kharkiv #ukraine #ukrainewar  #putinswar #putinwarcriminal #contemporarydrawing #contemporaryartist #bravery
Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - Living Quar Ukraine Flower Series: “War Rubble - Living Quarters,” May 2022. Mixed media on rag, 40” x 60.” The work I keep hearing is “rubble.” This whole body of work (I know, I have to catch up on posting cause there’s a lot of work) is related to my mother who survived WWII in London. She was British. How many times did she tell me of families, blocks, buildings that disappeared? All reduced to rubble. I see the War in Ukraine through my mothers eyes. She loved flowers and the cultural icon for Ukraine is the sunflower.  @filippucciart 🇺🇦 #ukraine #war #flowerstagram #costofwar #zelenskyy #wwii #wars #reducedtorubble #contemporaryartist
UKRAINE FLOWER SERIES “Lviv,” March 31, 2022. UKRAINE FLOWER SERIES “Lviv,” March 31, 2022. 40”x 60” on panel. My WASP 3D clay printer arrives tomorrow and this will be the first flower sculpture I’ll make. The background on this piece was made with clay paint. 🔌 @filippucciart #worksonpaper #contemporaryart #instagood #instaart #figurativeart #instaart #ukraineflowers #lviv #3dprinting #wasp3d #3d #3dclay #picosolutions #clay #bioshieldpaint
WOMAN WARRIOR CHESS SET NFT: “RED KING CLOTILDA. WOMAN WARRIOR CHESS SET NFT: “RED KING CLOTILDA.”

Clotilda was a 5th Century Queen of the Franks – a Germanic-speaking people who invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. She was a queen who behaved like a king. Clotilda bore 4 sons, 3 of whom became Kings, and she was known for her generosity and her political astuteness. She was literally a kingmaker the power behind the throne, and to this creator, a king herself. In the 5th Century, medieval women wore extraordinary hats and elaborate gowns. This is an original fantasy 3d creation inspired by Japanese kimonos, which also appeared in the 5th Century in Japan. Clotilda is buried in Paris.
 
https://solsea.io/collection/623e4d3e4ec24206b3ba4dcc 

♟♟♟♟@filippucciart ♟ #chess #womanwarrior #nft #solana #solananft #animation #crypto #cryptoartist #sol #womenincrypto #womensupportingwomen #carbonneutral #nftartists
UKRAINE FLOWER SERIES. Five days after Ukraine wa UKRAINE FLOWER SERIES.  Five days after Ukraine was attacked, I began these flowers. Each is named after a city or place bombed by Putin. On March 4, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant caught fire during an attack by Russian forces. Words fail. “Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,” 2022. Mixed media on rag paper, 40” x 60.” @filippucciart 🌻🌻#ukraine #nomorewar #zelensky #courage #flowers #peaceforukraine #peace #zaporizhzhia #nuclearpowerplant #contemporarydrawings
“Kiev,” March 2022, 40”x60.” The lily is a “Kiev,” March 2022, 40”x60.” The lily is a symbol of peace but the lily can have thorns. @filippucciart 🌻🌻🌻 #worksonpaper #contemporarypainting #pax #peace #peaceforukraine #fuckputin #prayforukraine  #totalitarianism #ukraineflowers
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