Giardino di Agrumi
Lemon Garden
2025
Gouache on canvas
120 × 120 cm
The kitchen painting draws breath from the lemon grove nearby, a quiet evocation of freshness and scent carried on warm winds. It no longer fits neatly within its frame — instead, it spills outward, growing, unfolding beyond borders, like the life it seeks to mirror. Its forms emerge from the unseen: microscopic worlds of lemon pulp, leaves, and blossoms - delicate patterns that fold into one another like whispered secrets. These intimate textures mingle with traces made by a scanner’s gaze, a crushed lemon pressed against glass, fractured and scattered, capturing the fruit’s hidden depths. Between these layers of scale - the smallest cells magnified, the fragmented whole revealed - our perception shifts, unfolding new ways to see and feel.
The painting becomes a space where the familiar dissolves into discovery, where the quiet complexity of nature invites us to pause and wonder. It is a delicate thread weaving between the grove’s tangible breath and the hidden life within each lemon - where countless cells come together to form a living whole, much like ingredients uniting in the kitchen to create a meal meant for gathering. The painting invites us to sense this quiet harmony, honoring freshness, growth, and the unseen bonds that shape our shared moments.
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