BORAGE III. Eternal Potential
Botanical Sculpture | Photographic sculpture in modelled clay | Unique piece | 10x10x17cm
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The plant that wanted to be eternal. Its DNA, its essence… is to be a borage. Not just another one, because no two are ever the same, but a borage nonetheless. But this plant has other plans. It wants to transcend and surpass the limits its initial morphology granted it. Its self-awareness about its peculiar beauty and unique color have given it the push we all need at some point in our existence to go beyond. And so, it proceeds to exploit its potential, to deconstruct itself at will, disregarding any prejudices and launching itself into an unexplored metamorphosis that literally makes it shine. The plant that began as a borage has become an eternal and unique gem that contemplates its new universe in peace. It has succeeded.
The story behind
These flowers were not the plan. We had gone to the fields of Sant Climent to photograph the cherry trees in blossom, and the borage growing around them was so striking that we took some back to the studio. There we separated the flowers from the stem one by one — they are tiny and extremely fragile, and at times we had to move them with modelling tweezers — and laid them on a white surface until they formed a grid of blue stars, halfway between Arabic tilework and an organic pattern. The sculpture came much later: we modelled it on a 14th of February, eight years on, in the same session as the poppy. When the piece dried, that white no longer fitted: it was asking for something heavy and mineral, a deep volcanic blue. It ended up looking like a living rock covered in stars.
Borage
Borage (Borago officinalis), native to the Mediterranean, bears starry blue flowers and cucumber-scented leaves; long used in cooking and herbal remedies, it symbolizes courage and supports pollinators.
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.
