ID Box VI Work detail

The artwork is composed of small graphic self-portraits on rose and poppy petals. The self-portrait consists of half of my face and half of Botticelli's Venus. The piece bases on the scientific conception of botanical and entomological classification of flora and fauna. Thus, by recurring to a botanical/entomological box, a box of graphic petal identity is formed, narrating the passage of time for the individual, as the petals change in size, color, and appearance upon being printed (using a plant-based solvent). The artwork is an exploration of identity materialized through the flowers harvested from the rose bushes in my countryside home. A flower overflows, a petal falls and transforms. A flower transmutes, something emerges. What once was, is no longer. The flower of the past is now just a memory. A petal assumes an identity.

The printing process is original and I have named it Florisgraphy. It is a print on rose petals using a pine resin solvent. The matrix is unique, created in offset. The printing process is done using a palm press.