ALMOND TREE I. Submerged Currents
Textured Wall Art | Photographic relief in plaster | Unique piece | 65x81cm
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A blossoming almond branch stirs the air, creating flows that seem to be underwater, currents that pass from the photo to the canvas in a kind of bas-relief. We sense that the air that once enveloped them still remembers the fleeting silhouettes that passed through it just a moment before. The aura of beauty leaves its inevitable trace.
The story behind
The branch came from the fields of the Vallès Occidental, where almond trees grow wild: nobody waters or prunes them, and still they blossom every February. The day we went to cut it the air was cold and the sky overcast, and that grey, diffuse light made the white of the flowers stand out. In the studio we held the branch in mid-air with clamps and dropped the light almost level with the petals, so that every volume would show. Working the plaster, we chased with our hands what had stayed with us from the field: petals moving in the wind.
Almond Tree
The almond tree (Prunus dulcis), native to the Middle East, blooms early and symbolizes awakening and promise; prized for its delicate blossoms and nutrient-rich nuts.
Think, plan, collect, select, position, illuminate, photograph and rework the image until it stops describing what was there and starts saying what we feel. That is the first half of the work.
Measure, mix, spread, shape, wait, smooth, transfer, merge, seal and sign. The matter completes the work.
Image integrated into the plaster. No paper, no film — what you see and touch is the relief. One unique image for each unique piece. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Nature that feels natural.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The artists play with the viewer's limit to recognize the photographed nature, they seek to suggest, to attract towards a bridge between the dreamlike and the real.
They make a study on sacrifice as a means of creation. The painful suppression of a part generates a new whole, a reality with unsuspected edges where subtracting gives us an unexpected abundance of beauty and visual interest. In a parallelism with time spilled in grey, boring or distressing moments that, in some way, give us a broader perspective of what it means to live and allows us to distinguish and covet the sweet stages.
Thus, in their photographs, the form faces a process of transformation, subjected to the dominion of light to be reborn in an unknown version. The volume is sectioned revealing silhouettes previously unnoticed. Different planes, different moments captured in the same vision.
At this point, the material aspect of the work plays a major role. There is a primitive emotional connection that artists ascribe to natural, earth-related, irregular and ancestral materials such as clay or plaster. This made it inevitable to embark on an arduous process of self-taught research, with countless trial and error until they were able to transfer all the power of their images from the screen to the plaster. Now, photography and volume merge into a single entity, in an unexplored materiality far from traditional supports.
