Leaves

Last autumn I found myself wandering in an 18th century Prussian cemetery in Berlin Mitte. While walking on a beautiful carpet of leaves, surrounded by graves, I thought about the three stages of life. There was me and the trees, alive, there were the deceased, and there were the leaves, no longer alive, not yet dead.

This series of works on autumn leaves reflects on a peculiar moment of transition: when the leaves fall off trees and lay on the ground. A instant of splendour, so quick and unique, where from being part of a multitude, leaves become beings with a life of their own. These paintings are a celebration of this moment.

Foglia #1

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #2

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #3

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #4

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #5

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #6

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #7

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #8

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #9

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #10

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #11

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #13

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #14

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #15

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #16

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #17

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #18

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38

Foglia #19

mixed media on paper, 28 x 38