Jute (Scars) — Ongoing Series (2022–)

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“Life is the structure imposed on the series of instants of time, but its essential reality is constituted by the single instant.” Gaston Bachelard

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Jute (Scars) is an ongoing series of paintings on jute and wax that extends the reflection begun with Crashes and Scars. If those earlier works explored the conditions of rupture and repair, here the focus shifts to the precise moment of transformation — the threshold where change becomes irreversible.

Each work captures an instant of passage: a shift from fragility to form, from surface to depth. The porous texture of jute absorbs wax and pigment unevenly, creating topographies of resistance and surrender. The material itself, coarse and organic, bears the marks of process — folds, saturations, scars — becoming a record of its own becoming.

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In Jute (Scars), Rizzetto investigates temporality not as continuity but as intensity. The wax preserves the immediacy of the gesture, freezing it in time, while the jute evokes the endurance of matter — its capacity to retain and transform the trace. Together, they create a fragile equilibrium between permanence and dissolution.

Continuing the dialogue with Crashes and Scars, this series questions how beauty can emerge at the intersection of pain and clarity. The act of working the material — heating, layering, sealing — becomes an analogue to healing itself: a slow choreography between chance and control.

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Through this practice, Jute (Scars) asks what remains of an instant once it has passed, and how the memory of change can still be felt on the surface of things. Each painting becomes both skin and snapshot of an event — a testimony to the fleeting moment in which something changes forever.

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