YUCCA III. Stretching is Important
Textured Artwork | Photography on plaster | 65x81cm
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Dimensions: 65x81cm
The title of this piece refers to the incredible slenderness of the leaves of the Yucca Gloriosa, portrayed in this photograph. It is also called the Spanish dagger, undoubtedly in reference to its extraordinarily sharp form.
As if standing on tiptoe, a small group of leaves stretch proudly and flirtatiously against a deep blue background, waiting to be captured in their best silhouette.
Yucca Gloriosa
Yucca gloriosa (Spanish dagger/Adam’s needle), native to the southeastern U.S., long valued for strong fibers and folk uses; symbolizing protection and endurance, it’s prized for sharp leaves and a dramatic, sculptural form.
Reflect, conceptualize, plan, collect, select, position, illuminate, photograph, and work digital magic… this is how half of our artwork is created, the soul and essence, the image.
Measure, mix, spread, shape, wait, smooth, print, merge, paint, sign, and protect… now the artwork is complete! Photography and plaster. 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.
