PieLilli isn’t just a name; it’s a tribute. It might sound like a playful name, but it holds a much deeper meaning to me. It is a combination of the nicknames of my two senior dogs, two wonderful, “crazy” Australian Shepherds who have been by my side for over a decade. They are the heartbeat of my home, and every day they teach me the most important values in life and the precious meaning of time besides inspiring me to be a better person.
It would take an endless post to explain who I am, the person I was, the person I am and the person I want to be, but this is not the place. This blog is simply a place where I want to share what I love and how I’ve been trying to express it through my creativity.
For the last fifteen years, I’ve been a freelance translator and linguist. I have an academic background in languages, literatures and also law. Over the last few years, the translation field has been going through a huge shift and I’ve lived it on my own skin. Now it’s time to rethink how to apply my love for languages, crafts and culture.
I’ve loved music in every form since I was a young teenager. I have always loved manual arts too; give me yarns and tools, and I am the happiest person on earth. I also love writing, of course. PieLilli is the place where I combine all this.
Through PieLilli, I want to share my handwoven tapestries with you, but I want them to be more than a result of my creativity. Every tapestry is much more. It is intertwined with music, and culture, and history. It is not just warp and weft. Each work is linked to specific music, be it a song or an entire playlist I created. And it can also include a button. Yes, buttons. I love collecting buttons and they are an incredible source of inspiration for my works. Sometimes a tapestry is born from a tiny button that opens a whole world to me. Of course, I will explain everything to you through my writing.
In the end, if you reflect upon it, I’m not stopping being a translator, I’m just changing how and what I translate. I am accustomed to translating a language, a culture, into another one. Now, I’m translating music, culture, and history into yarns, into my tapestries.
