Souvenir enroulé d'un matin bleu was shown for the first time in Turin in 1969. It is made up of a piece of blue felt rolled onto to wooden pole and fixed to a metal structure, on which the title is inscribed in Italian, the artist’s mother tongue. Like Dessin verrouillé, this work is atypical, but foreshadows several aspects of Gina Pane’s subsequent artistic production.
The exploration of individual memory and personal recollection goes on to play a fundamental role in the actions. Here, the title and sobriety of the image give the object a deeply intimate and poetic resonance. The softness of the felt and its delicate hue accentuate the private and undoubtedly pleasant nature of the event being remembered. In a later interview, Gina Pane linked the use of felt to a childhood memory “It is the material I first came into contact with when I was a child. I used to cut out discs for pianos being repaired.” Reused in the partitions, in particular in the cloaks of saints, felt is often associated with the themes of sharing and comfort.