PLANTS

Ficus carica – Whose design is it anyway? (2013 – 2015)

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We have a fig tree outside our kitchen. For years I have admired the beauty of the leaves - especially when backlit by the sun. Over the years I have tried a number of techniques to ‘artistically interpret’ the leaves until I finally realised that the natural design was simply too strong and as such, perfect.

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The vein pattern on the leaf has been interpreted in Biblical text which I use as a metaphor for the design code underlying all natural systems. The scale of the work and the laborious, time-consuming act of typing the text word by word means that it took 2 years to complete.

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Scripture selection: Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

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