WE ASKED 6 ON CREATION AND CREATIVITY AT ORNELLA PACCHIONI
Is there a moment when you were sure you would do what you love?
Yes !
I don't remember exactly the place or the year but I remember very precisely the feeling.
It was at a concert and the lights were coming on in time with the music and the pictures in the background and the musicians and my heart lifted and I thought to myself I want someone, thanks to what I create, feel his heart rise too. Or maybe it was a plane taking off, at least at that powerful transcendental moment. It was also when I learned that David Lynch was both a painter and a designer and a writer.
I understood that there was no choice and then, if I don't have to choose, I can do what I like.
Photo: Anyway LA - Acrylic on canvas, 2018
Photo: Slide My Way Through - Central Saint Martins' Open Studios - 2018 - Steel, metal, ceramics
Can you explain your creative process to us?
I am very active, I have ideas all the time and I want to realize them directly. It took me time to tame this impulsive need to create which often generates a form of frustration from not being able to do everything, or half.
So I jot down all my ideas as soon as they come up, without judgment, on tons of post it notes and let them marinate, a bit like coins in a fountain. And the moment I feel the fountain is full, I sit down and begin to explore and sort through each idea.
I decide on the most imperative then I put everything in place to achieve them.
I really like the theory that every creator has their little "genius" or "spirit" that follows them everywhere.
We must respect it and allow it to express itself in the best possible conditions.
Can you explain your creative process to us?
I am very active, I have ideas all the time and I want to realize them directly. It took me time to tame this impulsive need to create which often generates a form of frustration from not being able to do everything, or half.
So I jot down all my ideas as soon as they come up, without judgment, on tons of post it notes and let them marinate, a bit like coins in a fountain. And the moment I feel the fountain is full, I sit down and begin to explore and sort through each idea.
I decide on the most imperative then I put everything in place to achieve them.
I really like the theory that every creator has their little "genius" or "spirit" that follows them everywhere.
We must respect it and allow it to express itself in the best possible conditions.
Photo: Slide My Way Through - Central Saint Martins' Open Studios - 2018 - Steel, metal, ceramics
What made you fall in love with cinema?
The live show.
It was when I attended theatrical or musical performances that I said to myself "gosh there is everything, space, the body, light, that's exactly it".
I understood that it was necessary to link several elements in order to create a single universe.
But I felt too lonely to set up something so collaborative.
So I wrote a script and did a shoot and poof I fell in love.
Poster: Eat Your Eyes - Short Film - 2018
Your ultimate father to understand poetry?
Undeniably a poem by Maggie Nelson. Most certainly Shiner, the first of his collection of the same name.
I'm not saying anything else, you have to read it.
An artist to see at least once in his life?
Cy Twombly. Just to stand in front of one of his huge canvases and hear him whisper his scribbles of mythology and invented words.
Rather Cloud or rather Sunset? Coolest way to wear it?
Final internal debate. I would love to be sunset but I'm just completely cloudy.
Coolest way is in the hair in a bandana, so you feel like an aerial warrior.
