ALMOND TREE II. The Distance of a Fall
Textured Wall Art | Photographic relief in plaster | Unique piece | 67x80cm
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The imprint of blossoming almond branches, from the month of April, is sealed at the peak of an emptiness. But the branches are no longer what they once were; little by little, they have been left bare, leaving beneath them an endless blanket of ethereal white petals. Peace, calm, and tranquility take over this landscape, pausing thoughts and wrapping them in the soft light of morning.
The story behind
This one comes from the same cold February morning in 2024 as ALMOND TREE I. The most delicate part of that day was carrying the branches back: almond blossom lasts no time, and we had to photograph it before it lost its freshness — the whole session, the studio smelled sweet. For the ground we stripped the petals off many flowers by hand and spread them over white paper until they formed a blanket. Then we used the branches themselves, bare now and knotted, to press into the wet plaster the silhouettes of whatever had dropped those petals. Look closely and you can still find small traces of that branch caught in the surface.
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.
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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.
