Participants will explore all stages of creating an organic wire sculpture, from intuitive modeling exercises to technical demonstrations focusing on structure, tension control, and working in successive layers.
Guided by Racso Jugarap, each participant will develop their own interpretation of a form inspired by the artist's Romela series, while asserting their visual language and deepening their sensitivity to the material.

At the end of the training, the trainee will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental principles of tension, balance, and volume in wire sculpture
• Construct organic forms through layering and structural growth
• Translate emotions and gestures into sculptural language
• Develop a personal piece from conception to completion
• Present and analyze their creative process

This workshop offers a complete immersion in the creation of organic wire sculptures. Participants will go through the entire process, from the first intuitive modeling exercises to the creation of a finished piece. Technical demonstrations will structure the learning process, focusing in particular on the essential concepts of tension, balance, volume, and construction in successive layers.
Accompanied by Racso Jugarap, trainees will be invited to explore a sensitive and progressive approach to the material. Starting with a form inspired by the Romela series, each participant will develop a personal interpretation, asserting their own visual language. The emphasis will be on the relationship between gesture, emotion, and structure, in order to transform intuition into coherent sculptural expression.
Throughout the training, participants will learn to master the fundamental principles of wire sculpture, to construct organic forms through structural growth and superimposition, and to carry out an artistic project from conception to completion. Particular attention will be paid to the ability to take a step back from one's work, analyze one's creative process, and present one's approach with clarity.

Schedule

Day 1

Morning

• Introduction to the practice and philosophy of Racso Jugarap
• Presentation of key works and discussion of intuition in the construction of forms
• Warm-up exercises: blind drawing and emotional gestures

Afternoon

• Practical experimentation: thread manipulation and free studies
• Collective reflection on instinctive sculptural responses

Day 2

Morning

• Technical demonstration: tools, types of wire, tension control, anchoring methods
• Understanding balance, structure, and volumetric growth

Afternoon

• Creation of small structural studies focused on layering and stability
• Individual feedback and guided adjustments

Day 3

Morning

• Deconstruction of the Romela form: anatomy, internal structure, and expansion of volume
• Conceptual discussion on organic growth in sculpture

Afternoon

• Construction of a personal central structure inspired by Romela's logic
• Time for reflection on creative choices and formal evolution

Day 4

Morning

• Development of individual sculptures: density, stratification, dynamics of movement
• Individualized technical support

Afternoon

• Continuation of personal work with an emphasis on individual interpretation
• Discussion on artistic voice and expression through the material

Day 5

Morning

• Final adjustments, structural corrections, and finishing techniques
• Preparation of works for presentation

Afternoon

• Informal presentation of work and collective critique
• Discussion about the process, challenges encountered, and discoveries
• Final discussion on developing a personal artistic language beyond the workshop
• Tidying up the workshop

Racso Jugarap

For Racso Jugarap, creativity is less a career choice than a vital impulse. As a child in the Philippines, he instinctively made and assembled things, without ever thinking of himself as an artist, a word that was almost taboo in his cultural environment. It was only after he moved to Brussels in 2015 that his view of himself changed. Two years later, in 2017, he decided to devote himself entirely to his craft.

Wire was the obvious choice for him. The son of a jewelry designer, he grew up in his father's workshop, watching gold and silver being transformed into precious objects. Too young to handle precious metals, he collected the wires left on the floor, used to bind the molds. These fragments became his first materials. The workshop became a testing ground, the tools his playmates.

However, his path led him elsewhere. Europe, a career as a chef, several cities. Until that ordinary day in a hardware store: faced with rolls of metal wire, a sensory memory resurfaced. The gesture returned immediately. Malleable and flexible, the wire became the medium for a personal language.
A self-taught artist, Racso works without sketches. Flat surfaces unsettle him; his ideas must be born in space. The wire acts as a three-dimensional ink, capturing intuition and giving shape to emotions. The process is direct, sometimes feverish: an image emerges, born of a memory or meditation, and the artist isolates himself in his studio until dawn.

Nothing is truly premeditated. The dimensions are revealed once the work is completed, even if it means improvising to get it out of the studio. Some pieces take shape in a matter of hours, others require months, depending on the intensity of the moment or the approach of an exhibition.
His recent works explore an intimate territory: childhood. Fragile in appearance, resistant in their structure, they cast moving shadows in space.

In Brussels, where he appreciates the cosmopolitan energy and attention to art and design, he finds an anchor. Beyond technical prowess, his work is about reconquest. Having left home at 18 and faced independence early on, he says he left behind a part of his carefree nature. His sculptures then become a means of rediscovering it.

Through his intertwining threads, Racso Jugarap invites everyone to awaken their inner child: to laugh freely, dance in the rain, climb trees, and embrace imbalance. Not to regress, but to relearn freedom.

• Classroom, multipurpose room, workshops with professional equipment
• Materials provided
• Individual and collaborative work
• Workshop work
• Active participation and experimentation by participants are encouraged

• Collective and personalized monitoring of work, regular updates
• Self-assessment of technical skills
• Group feedback
• Attendance sheet for each half-day
• Certificate of completion issued by Campus MaNa