A beautiful project that blew our minds and we want to share it with you!
A lot of creativity, Good equipment, Sheep wool and Felting Needle.
Here we tell you about the creative process of Ferran Palau’s triple project, “Plora Aquí” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdxGaMEfUkI . A work that together with Pablo Maestres and his interdisciplinary team is impossible to leave you indifferent.
At a time when Ferran Palau was looking for the direction of his new album, he began to create little monsters with material he had at home, and a parallel path began between music and monsters. From the conjunction of Pablo and Ferran was born the idea of making a longer video where the protagonists were monsters.
From idea to creation, using the Felting Needle process:
The construction of the monsters was an artisanal task carried out by Agnes C. Olive, Atena P. Clavell and Andrea R. Perez, which took 3 months of laborious work.
In this short interview they tell us about their creative process and techniques!
The creative process started by sharing what they wanted to convey with the
monsters, what was the symbolism, the sensations?
AGNÉS TELLS US:
In any creative project, one of the most complex stages is moving from the world of ideas to reality, the material. It was after the meetings where we soaked up the imaginary that they wanted to transmit and I thought of teaming up with Atena and Andrea.
The first task I had was to investigate with different materials. To give matter and body to the ethereal idea they had. I decided to start working on the volumes and shapes with plasticine. This was the starting point for creating life-size moulds with other materials so that I could make the patterns with Andrea.
ANDREA:
In the end, pattern-making is drawing on a plan what will later become a 3-dimensional volume, like a puzzle where you create your pieces. From the real volumes that we worked on the moulds, we worked on each piece of the puzzle to achieve the shapes of the monsters. The skeleton is made up of a diving suit, from the neck to the feet, on which we incorporated volumes that give it the shape designed by Agnès, based on cushions and wadding.
To finish, everything was covered with a volume-fitting shell made of wool felt. In this way we were able to obtain the body of the monsters ready for Athena to start giving them life and personality with the different textures and colours of the sheep’s wool.
ATENA:
They were looking for monsters that looked real, that’s how I thought of sheep’s wool, because of the texture, the colour, although it seemed to me that due to the time and budget it wouldn’t be possible. The good thing about working as a team made us consider that wool was a material that wasn’t heavy and gave us a more realistic image.
The techniques for working with wool are slow. It was a matter of getting the wool the more natural the better, we saved steps, we could work with different shades, textures and thicknesses of wool as each breed of sheep has different characteristics …
We start with a good selection to find out in which parts of the body of the
We were very grateful to them for the work they did. It was at this point that we contacted Fiber Fever who helped us find all the formats of sheep’s wool we used and recommended the best options for our needs.
We continued with dry felting for the bigger monster and wet felting for the smaller one. It looked like we were painting or sculpting, but with wool.
It was a long and laborious process, but we are very happy with the results of the two little monsters and all the visual work of Ferran Palau and Pablo Maestres’ team. Here we share with you a little piece of the beautiful project and we hope it gives you the punch to keep on creating with this wonderful natural fibre like sheep’s wool!
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