ABOUT
Hi, my name is Ali Filippelli
ROUGHLY CUT is a place to share my photography, journals, ceramics, embroidery and to gather stories of collecting and processes.
I have been a collections and research assistant, a database manager, an archivist, a photographer - and now a potter too. I have worked with living artists, photographs, documents, and fine art. My career has taken me down a path of record keeping, collecting, and documentary photography. Roughly Cut is a culmination of these interests.
Environmental Portrait Photography is a way for me to capture processes and people in a more formal setting. I have shot photo stories about artists residencies, art installations, gardening techniques, and foodscapes.
Documentary Photography is something I have studied since high school. I keep coming back to it. Observing life while still living it and taking as little as possible from those around me while shooting.
Product and Visual Storytelling was born out of habit. Digitizing objects in a museum setting has given me the opportunity to appreciate them for their physical nature but also the story they have to tell. Photographing products in a controlled setting has allowed me to expand my technical control as well as my post production skills. Through Visual Story telling I place the objects in a larger context and bring them to life, inviting the unexpected back into the process.
Food Photography started with a project back in 2013 with my now archived food blog, Mortar + Parsley. I spent 2 years, making recipes, staging ingredients and creating little foodscapes. Similar to Product Photography, capturing ingredients and food up close I was able to develop new skills.
Ceramics, Embroidery, and Journal Illustrations veer from my tradition of documenting through a lens. I had never been able to keep a journal until 3 years ago when my husband and I made the decision to travel for a little while. Writing took on a whole new importance and eventually writing led to drawings and illustrations - which I now do almost daily. Enter Ceramics and Embroidery - in 2019 while travelling I was re-introduced to both mediums and I was hooked. Since then I have been exploring hand building and hand painting with clay and underglazes, and pushing my creativity in embroidered floral compositions and keeping track of it all in my journals and sketchbooks. My shop, Little Gray Studios, sells all of my work as it becomes available.
As a Cultural Archivist I constantly ask myself, what is significant and what is useful to save? To record? How far removed do we need to be from an object to see it's worth? I collect objects, keep records, and a paper trail so as not to disappear entirely into this digital age.
I have been a collections and research assistant, a database manager, an archivist, a photographer - and now a potter too. I have worked with living artists, photographs, documents, and fine art. My career has taken me down a path of record keeping, collecting, and documentary photography. Roughly Cut is a culmination of these interests.
Environmental Portrait Photography is a way for me to capture processes and people in a more formal setting. I have shot photo stories about artists residencies, art installations, gardening techniques, and foodscapes.
Documentary Photography is something I have studied since high school. I keep coming back to it. Observing life while still living it and taking as little as possible from those around me while shooting.
Product and Visual Storytelling was born out of habit. Digitizing objects in a museum setting has given me the opportunity to appreciate them for their physical nature but also the story they have to tell. Photographing products in a controlled setting has allowed me to expand my technical control as well as my post production skills. Through Visual Story telling I place the objects in a larger context and bring them to life, inviting the unexpected back into the process.
Food Photography started with a project back in 2013 with my now archived food blog, Mortar + Parsley. I spent 2 years, making recipes, staging ingredients and creating little foodscapes. Similar to Product Photography, capturing ingredients and food up close I was able to develop new skills.
Ceramics, Embroidery, and Journal Illustrations veer from my tradition of documenting through a lens. I had never been able to keep a journal until 3 years ago when my husband and I made the decision to travel for a little while. Writing took on a whole new importance and eventually writing led to drawings and illustrations - which I now do almost daily. Enter Ceramics and Embroidery - in 2019 while travelling I was re-introduced to both mediums and I was hooked. Since then I have been exploring hand building and hand painting with clay and underglazes, and pushing my creativity in embroidered floral compositions and keeping track of it all in my journals and sketchbooks. My shop, Little Gray Studios, sells all of my work as it becomes available.
As a Cultural Archivist I constantly ask myself, what is significant and what is useful to save? To record? How far removed do we need to be from an object to see it's worth? I collect objects, keep records, and a paper trail so as not to disappear entirely into this digital age.
You've probably seen TREIBDESIGN pop up a lot on this site, it is Kaspar Heinrici and me, a husband and wife design firm.
We paint murals, print custom silk screen art, put patterns on everything, and I document the processes.
To learn more or for any requests contact Kaspar at Treibdesign.
We paint murals, print custom silk screen art, put patterns on everything, and I document the processes.
To learn more or for any requests contact Kaspar at Treibdesign.
Founder of Mortar + Parsley food blog
Archivist and Research Assistant for the Happenings: New York, 1956-63 exhibition at The Pace Gallery, NYC
Creator of the Online Collections Database for the Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, SMU
Research and Collections Assistant for the 2018 publication From Rodin to Plensa: Modern Sculpture at the Meadows Museum