ALMOND TREE III. Reflected Shadows
Textured Wall Art | Photographic relief in plaster | Unique piece | 54x81cm
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Blossoming almond branches rise like towers of a skyline, casting infinite shadows at sunset. But are these shadows, or are we seeing a lake and its reflections? Could they be coffee grounds shaped like bouquets, or are we witnessing the mirage of an oasis of plants and water in the desert? Or perhaps it is a mysterious white fire from which small bursts of fireworks seem to emerge in the distance… Maybe none of these is the correct answer; perhaps the truth lies in the mind of each observer.
The story behind
The third from that February batch in 2024, and the hardest to set up. We wanted the branches to cast their shadow like a city skyline at dusk, so we placed them behind a surface and lit them from behind with a hard, tightly aimed light. Holding the branches in exactly that position took us hours: not one of them would stay where we wanted it. We won in the end, and the skyline came out of that struggle. All three almond pieces were born on the same cold, overcast day, and each one kept a different light.
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.
