The Tree of Life Print

Every respected painter must have a Tree of Life, and here's mine. This artwork was my daring experiment on a tiny A4 paper world, where I laid a first layer of graphic markers, and then added various layers of tempera colors, wax and chalks! Ever heard of such daring combinations? I am sure you have. Yet, it felt daring as a first attempt and it went great. Surfaces becomes depths and depths surface up to show an inside which dialogues with the outside. The winds carry the voice of the elements, the voice of history, time and memory. As a contrasting, and hilarious element, a little red snail walks by very slow, and quite carelessly on the bottom left part. The drama of a man-like creature emerging from the roots of the tree of life don't seem to concern her that much, nor to alter her life in anyway. What's important for you may not be important for me. A little plant of basil there, at back, almost within her grasp represent her tree of life, her amount of daily fun, nourishment and joy. And a small world is not a diminished world. It's just another world inside a world. The world of the tiny not-so-visible snail is a large as the life of galaxies if you just change zoom factor. That's why I liked so much to paint in such small formats. It pushed me to focus on the detail and to value small things, and to accept that on such small scale I wouldn't be able to control everything of the artmaking process. Ever tried to ask whether our creator did the same with all that is? Was HeShe very careful or some was left to the unpredictability of free chance? Inside the leaves of the Tree you will be able to spot a Dali-like wall clock and I am sure I didn't place that so deliberately. Maybe a tribute to the Spanish master, maybe a subconscious message concerning the nature of time: time is both visible and invisible. It exists and it doesn't. You can prove it but you can not show it directly. Some people also saw a little black crow in the tree leaves, somewhere on the top. On the tree bottom, near the trunk, are some light blue leaves, and inside the tree itself there's a lot of blue, which is quite unusual. On one hand it refers to the fact that trees sometimes are so high that seem to drink on the sky and therefore absorb their colour, on the other hand as far as I remember blue, and light blue are sacred colors for many traditions which knew the tree of life in their cosmogony. The new owner of this painting will surely be happy to do some research about the tree of life myth in their own culture. Thank you for liking, buying, sharing my art! Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MatteoSicaColourWave/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matteocolourwave/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNW29TqcRqbo755oahbLvag Openly, Matteo Stay tuned! https://www.facebook.com/MatteoSicaColourWave

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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