Francesco Paternoster 
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New Old Pottery
Imaginary Beings

Where porcelain meets skin, and craft becomes identity.

Imaginary Beings is the second chapter of the Wunderkammer collection. Each figure is a hybrid creature born from three visual traditions that share the same obsession with surface, ornament and ritual: the decorative language of antique porcelain, the iconography of Sicilian Moor's heads, and the permanent mark of tattoo culture.

The result is a series of impossible objects — heads that are simultaneously sculptures, vessels and living bodies. Artefacts from a civilization that never existed, but feels deeply familiar.

AI visual research.
Part of the Bold & New Old universe.