Kerôk

On April 19th, 2025, the first ever mega rock concert took place at the creative workshop on Via Olona 104 in Gallarate.
It all happened by chance. One day I got a message from Jekke from Five Bucks, all hyped up about finding a space for Itchy and the Nits to play — they were on a European tour from Australia. An awesome band made up of three fierce girls full of energy. He asked if they could play a gig at the studio and I said yes, thinking, “punk-rock and ceramics? Sounds crazy, worst case we break everything!”

Along with Itchy, in order of appearance, two local bands performed: Kanfora, formed by Luca Brumana, aka cpx on bass, Lorenzo Amadori on drums, and Federico Crapanzano on electric guitar — and Five Bucks, a music project by Giacomo Masciavè Rodrigues (Jekke).

Together with Anna, the girl I still share the studio with, we threw together a couple of beers and some pizza. The night was a blast and we managed to make a donation to the bands thanks to the generous offerings of all the friends who came out to listen.

During the night we kicked off the Kerôk project, an idea that came up randomly in Leipzig between me and Rebecca Talamona — Rebok — a 22-year-old photographer from Galliate Lombardo, obsessed with punk rock, always ready to pull out her Minolta and shoot some analog photos that are totally crazy — and honestly, almost as beautiful as she is (QUEEN OF ROCK).

The project is simple: each band gets to design a ceramic plate, we interview them, take pictures, draw them… and in the end, we’ll put it all together into a fanzine. This was our first band… let’s see where it goes from here.

Out of all the folks moshing and listening in the studio, I picked out Sofia Guastoni, a half-American friend who we asked to interview the Aussie girls in English — our English sucked too much to even try, so it was best to pass the mic to her (EXPERT). Sofia was super stoked and jumped right in, reading out our questions and leading the interview like a pro.

by Giulia Bonora


People are still outside, smoking and chatting. At the entrance, instead of the usual nightclub stamp, they draw a little doodle on your arm.
As soon as you walk in, on the left there’s the Sticknpork corner, where tattoos are being done. On the right, a table stacked with beers and pizza. In the back, long shelves cover the entire wall, filled with works by Giulia and Anna.
On one of those shelves sits a big white plate, balancing between the ceramics, with portraits that Eva, Beth, and Cin — the band’s singers — drew of each other.

They arrived in Gallarate for their tour straight from Australia.
They’re traveling across Europe in a van — it’s the first time in Italy for all of them, and Giulia’s studio is one of their very first stops.
On stage they go by the name Itchy and the Nits (which in Italian would be something like “prurito e le pulci”).

Beth and Cin are sisters, though very different from each other: Beth is short, dark-haired, and curly; Cin has copper-colored hair, she’s taller and has a quieter, more reserved way about her.
Eva is tall, blonde, with a big smile and a pink feather snake draped around her neck.

Before them, Kanfora and Five Bucks took the stage.
Right after the show, we caught the girls still out of breath from screaming into the mic, and moved into the ceramics room for the interview.
(text by Sofia Guastoni)

drawings by Chiole

What animal would you like to be?
Eva: a cuckoo or an orangutan.
Beth: a gorilla.
Cin: a greyhound.

What’s your biggest dream?
Eva says that, for some reason, she secretly wants to meet Debbie Harry.
Beth exclaims, “Oh, even though I said I’d be a gorilla, my biggest dream is still to hug a chimpanzee!”
Everyone bursts out laughing. Cin squeezes in between the voices and says shyly: “Mine is to see the Northern Lights.”

What do you do for a living?
Eva is caught off guard, then remembers: “Oh god, I was about to forget that until a few weeks ago I used to work… I still work in a place where people buy, sell, and swap clothes — kind of like a vintage swap shop. People bring in their clothes, we price them, and sell them.”
Beth says she quit her job as a picture framer before leaving, but she hopes to go back to it once she’s back in Australia.
Cin surprises us: she’s about to start a PhD in art history to work at a university. She finishes with a little laugh: “Maybe I’ll just be a student forever.”

What would you do with 100,000 euros?
Beth quickly points out: “That’s 200,000 dollars!”
Eva already knows: “Maybe I’d stay in Italy longer?”
Giulia gets super hyped — that’s exactly what we wanted to hear.
Beth and Cin take longer to answer, taking the question surprisingly seriously.
Beth goes from “I don’t know” to some thinking out loud, then decides (a bit hesitantly): “Maybe half for a mortgage and half for a long vacation.”
Cin, like her sister, would invest it: she’d buy land and build a house on it.

What is love to you?
Eva thinks for a moment, then answers with a question: “Maybe Beth and Cin?”
Beth repeats the question to buy time and says, “It’s too hard to answer.”
Eva remembers her boyfriend, but it’s too late — Beth and Cin have already taken his place.
Beth surprises us: for her, love is relaxing. Not about loving others, but about loving yourself — feeling good, enjoying things without worrying.
Cin wanted to say the same thing and adds: “Not stressing out, saying and doing whatever you want, and feeling good.”

What’s the craziest thing that’s happened to you on tour?
Eva jumps in defensively: “We’re still just getting started!” Then tells us about their van troubles: “We broke a light and there’s a big dent in one of the side doors. Fingers crossed they don’t notice when we return it.”
Beth shares how Eva snores: switching between a normal aaaaahhhh and an ihhhhhh (which, according to all three, is impossible to reproduce).
Cin remembers: “Something crazy happened to us in San Francisco, when we found the car door completely shat on by someone — and we had no idea how or why.”

Favorite song?
Eva: Cry for a Shadow (by The Beatles).
Beth: “Lately I’ve been listening to Cruel to Be Kind — can’t remember who it’s by…” and starts humming it. “I love it!” (It’s by Nick Lowe.)
Cin takes a while, but finally picks We’ve Got a Groovy Thing Goin’, Baby by Simon & Garfunkel.
Beth adds: “Cin and her boyfriend Dave do an amazing cover of it. Almost better than the original.”

How did you all meet?
Eva tells us she met Beth while working at an ice cream shop. When she first started, she was always nervous because Beth would constantly prank her — sometimes telling her the boss was super pissed, even when it wasn’t true.
Beth remembers it differently: she met one of Eva’s friends first, who asked her to play music together after finding out she had a drum set. Then Eva joined, and finally Cin.

What would you put in a sandwich?
Eva: “Maybe feta, salami, lettuce… and maybe some pickles? I don’t know if that’s weird.”
Beth: “Oh god! Definitely sourdough bread, pesto” — she looks at Eva to check if she already said it — “goat cheese, arugula, salami for me too, tomato, and mustard.”
Eva laughs and asks, “And tomato sauce?” But Beth, completely serious, says no.
Cin knows exactly what she wants: “A good tuna sandwich with jalapeños, pickles, onions, cheese, and mustard.”

We finish the interview with Amore Disperato playing in the background and head back in to dance.

Interview by Reb & Giuli

Photographs by Marco Traverso

Prealpi

Spring Summer 2020 Fashion for Vogue Talents

Prealpi is a photographic project by Marco Traverso in collaboration with Tea Barbagallo. They both grew up in the same areas of northern Italy, in natural countryside landscapes, between plains meeting pre-Alps’ hills, lakes and rivers.

The time they experienced through the lockdown led them to reunite with their families. Thinking back to some childhood memories, they decided to tell a story through photographs dedicated to spring summer 2020 fashion, in which Marco wished me to be a part of.

Team Credits

Photographer Marco Traverso
Stylist Tea Barbagallo
Hair / Make-up Lucia Orazi @ TWA
Photo Assistant Francesco Gigli
Models Giulia Bonora; Chiara Vanderstraeten @ Monster

Thanks to Giorgio Robustelli

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What tools do I use?

I have decided to tell you a little bit about my favourite tools to work with. I would like to share these with those who are passionate about ceramics and are curious to find out what the most common tools are, what they are called, and how they are used.

The idea is to post a picture, at least once a week, of a tool that I will tag using the #KeramoTools hashtag, so that they are easier to find.

II will begin by talking about basic tools and then move on to the less common tools used for different techniques. I would also like to show you how to hand craft equipment from wood, ceramic or other materials. I hope this will help!

Io e il mio ragazzo, Paolo Bianchi, di liuteria WAIZ , siamo entrambi artigiani e ci sosteniamo l’un l’altro creando oggetti utili che possano esserci d’aiuto per il nostro lavoro. In questo momento il mio corredo è per la maggior parte firmato WAIZ e devo dire che sono veramente cool!

QThese are some accessories I use when I use the potter’s wheel to create functional objects:

  • natural sponges
  • wooden spatula
  • awl or large needle
  • water bowl
  • clay-cutting wire
  • wooden meter

Before we get started, do we all know what a potter’s wheel is?

Me struggling with a mini bowl

Most people are familiar with the potter’s wheel thanks to the very popular film “Ghost“. Who hasn’t been touched by Patrick Swayze’s romantic scene accompanying the hands of the beautiful Demi Moore as they make a beautiful vase?

The pottery wheel or potter’s wheel is a machine that harnesses the opposition between the centrifugal force undergone by the clay placed on a metallic head or disk, and the force carried out by the hands of the ceramist or wheel potter, in order to obtain a smooth and regular shape.

How many types of potter’s wheels are there?

There are pedal potter’s wheels, also known as foot wheels, and motorised or electric-powered wheels.

The first type, which are older, allow the speed of the disk to be increased and decreased through a pedal and require a certain amount of skill in coordinating the movement of hands and feet. For this reason, they are the top choice for many professional ceramists who are attached to more traditional techniques.

The motorised clay potter’s wheel, on the other hand, allows the adjustment of different standard speeds with manual controls or, more frequently, with a pedal. These commands allow automatic speed conservation without the need for human intervention until a different command is initiated.

All clear on the potter’s wheel? If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

In the next article I will start to tell you all about the different tools, keep following me to learn more!eguirmi per saperne di più!

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