Valva is a soft sculpture tapestry in cotton cord, its great beauty drawn from mussel shells — blue-black in color, covered in fine concentric growth lines, and pearly purple on the inside with subtle iridescent reflections.
As in many situations, the human being has found a high economic return to mussels and mollusks in general.
When you eat a mussel, you are eating the mouth, stomach, pericardial cavity, anus, gills, muscles, intestines and labial palp of this living being. Not forgetting the tiny nervous system and the gonads. Despite the fact that these bivalves are potentially toxic for human consumption.
Not only for you to eat them (if you do), the shells are also used for animal feed, fertilizers and fertilizers, road asphalt, purifying filters, construction mortar, toothpastes and makeup, paints and varnishes, paper bleach.
Valva — soft sculpture tapestry, compact and concise
They deserve a compact and concise soft sculpture. The mussel deserves thanks and tributes. The filtration capacity of the mussels is enormous, pumping up to 8 liters per hour. It forms numerous communities just like humans.
The Valva tapestry is three-dimensional, has volume, sculpted by a plumb cotton rope that serves as a frame for two circles of shells communities, in the upper circle they modestly show us its pearly interior. In the lower circle its blue-black exterior. The same bicolor shell. It is concave. They are sewn by hand with black paper threads, one by one they hang and sway.
The circle and the mussel are perfect, homogeneous; neither of them pretends distinction or division. The circle protects and rolls.
The knot, which is also present in the MALIMBUS Tapestry is the absolute protagonist and thanks to its massification it gives that concise and compact appearance. Knot, rope and shells make a unique piece.
VALVA — one-of-a-kind soft sculpture tapestry, available at Malimbus Studio
