Crafts based on still life
Using elements of still life to develop handicrafts is an option that allows for unique and decorative objects of strange beauty, whose private ways are attractive now. Tree roots, hollow logs and palm trees, for example, can be used to make mirrors, lamps and other items that are ideal to give personality to the decor of our surroundings.
Hector Silvio Martinetti (photo) is a craftsman of the province of Tucumán in Argentina, which develops this type of craft based on elements of nature found dead in his continuing travels around the countryside and the mountains of Tucumán. Martinetti said according to local newspaper La Gaceta, "Nature is whimsical and beautiful. Have an unlimited magic which often fails to value. "
Precisely this ancient and magical beauty is what draws regional craftsman to create this unique objects, with forms that man can never imitate or emulate so industrial. For example, Martinetti developed a mirror framed with two trunks that have a trapezoidal shape so seductive as strange. Even one of the wood used is a parra lost on the plain.
In principle, the artisan fields travels in search of natural materials strangers, chasing the most original. Once found, choose the type of object can be created with this material. According to Martinetti, one of the most used is the palm, the docility of its timber for the job.
Undoubtedly, the originality of these creations are based on the unique nature of each element, because no two logs or tree roots that are identical. Please note that the craftsman's work includes a deep respect for nature, taking into account that are not modified forms of natural elements, but the object is designed based on that.