Tufting-Gun Tapestry with Felt and Embroidery
Influences
A course by Alex Rocca , Designer and Textile Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this class, I will show some references in visual arts and cinema that influence my work.”
In this video lesson Alex Rocca addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Tufting-Gun Tapestry with Felt and Embroidery. Learn to use a range of techniques to bring to life original designs filled with volume and texture.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences I will talk about my influences. I really like film director Wong Kar-wai. He has a very peculiar process in his works and films, which is to tell poetry through images. His work has several layers, not only aesthetic and visual, but it has sound, it has script, it has cast, actors, costumes. I like to say that he works with visual poetry. When you watch his movie, you enter that story in a poetic way and keeps imagining things through the image. This is very important. As my work in tapestry is a bit you look at something and understand that in an aesthetic way, I like to say th...”
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Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Decoration, Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Interior Decoration, Punch Needle, Textile Design

Alex Rocca
A course by Alex Rocca
Alex Rocca is a design and textile artist based in Curitiba. He has a degree in cinema and has exhibited work at major art fairs such as SP-Arte and MADE. Driven by the constant search for artistic freedom and a poetic aesthetic, he draws on influences such as architecture and the seventh art to create powerfully sensorial pieces by playing with shadow, volume, and texture.
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