Description
Leporello in a box, closed, 3.74 x 2,36 x 0,78 inches, open 30,31 x 3,14 inches
Gum print technique, yellow Washi paper, gold leaf, watercolour.
Printed with the Bendini press at Atelier 11 in Siena.
Gum print is an art printmaking technique that uses humble and easily recyclable materials. Probably born in America in the 1960s, this technique allows for images with a distinctive graphic quality, a blend of photography, manual intervention, and printing.
There are moments when, without warning, you stop to look at a tree. In those moments, you don’t just observe a trunk or some leaves: you enter, almost without realizing it, into a silent and profound dialogue with something beyond us. Trees are in no hurry. They just stand still. And in their stillness, they teach us a calm we’ve forgotten. Looking at them, we realize how fragile and breathless the race we make every day is, and how strong is the one who sinks roots, who lets the seasons pass through without resistance, who knows how to shed leaves without fearing the void. Standing before a tree, you can feel a sense of return. As if something inside us recognizes that silence, that verticality, that invisible connection between earth and sky. It is a form of presence that needs no words to make itself felt. Sometimes, you even sense a subtle melancholy. Perhaps because trees preserve time, and we instead chase it. Perhaps because their existence reminds us that everything passes, but it doesn’t necessarily end. And so, spending a few moments before a tree that embraces you with its branches is not just contemplation. It is an act of listening. A way to rediscover, within the noise of life, a fragment of truth.
