POPPY II. Of Play and Silver
Botanical Sculpture | Photographic sculpture in modelled clay | Unique piece | 12x12x29cm
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A sinuous pair of shapes rises into the air, covered by colorful petals. One is the past, the other the future.
Are they a couple, a family, neighbors, friends, or complete strangers? Their paths have crossed, but at different stages of life.
While waiting for dusk, one dreams of what once was. The other anxiously awaits what will be, eager to discover how far her latent potential will reach and what mysteries life has in store.
And so, absorbed in their thoughts, they forget the passing of time and become petrified in an infinite moment, where they imagine and visualize idealized versions of their lives, as the present drifts further and further away.
What defines us more: our vision of ourselves, or how we act in the here and now?
Poppy
Poppy (Papaver spp.), native to Eurasia, flaunts silk-like petals and iconic seed pods; a self-seeding bloomer symbolizing remembrance and resilience, prized for vivid colour and pollinator appeal.
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.
