by Paola Ciccioli
Here is the big jellyfish created by Giuliana Bellini, an artist who is very dear to me, for two reasons: the first one is that her studio gives onto the same courtyard I automatically overlook when smoking a cigarette. The second one is that Giuliana creates imaginative installations often using recyclable materials. As it happened in the case of this jellyfish with optical fibre tentacles and the body totally covered with a huge number of small strips made out, thanks to a patient use of a pair of scissors, of some mineral water bottles. By passing through Giuliana’s hands and imagination, a polluting piece of garbage – the water bottle normally destined to the recycling bin – got transformed into some kind of light lace that she eventually ennobled by illuminating it from the inside.