{"id":120796,"date":"2025-11-06T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120796\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:02:36","slug":"in-nesting-and-wrapped-natalie-ciccoricco-collages-reflections-on-nature-and-grief-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120796\/","title":{"rendered":"In ‘Nesting’ and ‘Wrapped,’ Natalie Ciccoricco Collages Reflections on Nature and Grief \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delicate geometries and organic forms combine in the elegant works of Natalie Ciccoricco<\/a>. Often working with found materials, the California-based artist threads multicolored string through handmade paper. In her ongoing Nesting series, fiber envelops small twigs that gently interrupt the otherwise meticulous shapes\u2014redolent of the way that trees themselves have the ability to grow around fences and other obstacles in their way.<\/p>\n

Ciccoricco has also recently been working on a series called Wrapped, a poignant exploration of loss and grief. Small panels collaged with colorful imagery are then wrapped tightly with bands of thin yarn. <\/p>\n

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The collection emerged as a deeply personal response to the sudden loss of her son, literally encompassing emotions and experiences that art makes it possible to describe. \u201cThese are not somber artworks, but rather an expression of radical acceptance and a surrender to both love and grief,\u201d she says in a statement.<\/p>\n

The artist has long been interested in the wide variety of ways that paper and fiber<\/a> interact, from collaging found photographs with yarn details to hand-making paper in bespoke shapes. The sticks used in her latest Nesting works were foraged around her hometown of Budel, The Netherlands, where she spent the summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween my own personal grief and the state of the world, I feel my art practice has become an important anchor in my life,\u201d Ciccoricco shares. Her practice\u2014and by extension, her pieces\u2014channel a sense of calm, order, and harmony. \u201cIt\u2019s both a tether to something beautiful and familiar, as well as a quiet resistance against all the fear, hate, and violence we are witnessing right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lately, Ciccoricco has been focusing primarily on commissions, including pieces from the Nesting series at a Big Sur, California, hotel called Alila Ventana. Find more on Ciccoricco\u2019s website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"threePieces from the \u2018Wrapped\u2019 series<\/p>\n

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\"an\u201cThey Are the Sun and the Moon\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"an\u201cStill Silently Watching\u201d<\/p>\n

\"detailsDetails of the \u2018Nesting\u2019 series<\/p>\n

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