This original handmade tiny spellbook by Chiara Ambrosio is made with Florentine Rigacci mustard paper and contains 12 pages with original drawings on each page.

The book measures 5 x 5 cm.

Chiara Ambrosio is a Southern Italian, London-based filmmaker and visual artist, working with animation, documentary, photography, drawing, linocut and printed matter to explore the ways in which we perceive, remember, articulate and preserve personal and collective histories and sense of place. She is particularly interested in the ritualistic power of space, handmade objects and the printed matter, and produces works that act as amulets or talismans, to protect, stimulate and open the imagination.

Her work includes collaborations with musicians (Amanda Palmer), composers (Michael Nyman) and anthropologists, and has been presented extensively both nationally and internationally at venues such as The Whitechapel Gallery, Anthology Film Archives and La Cinematheque Francaise. You can find her writing about souls of purgatory in Naples in the Morbid Anatomy Anthology.

For the last decade, she has been a part-time guardian of books and their stories at Bookartbookshop as well as curating “The Light Shadow Salon”, a moving image salon at London’s cult venue The Horse Hospital.

Chiara runs a monthly radio show “Raft” on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM radio station, where she embarks on walks across the city with other practitioners, reaping and sowing stories within its streets.

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