At the beginning of May, during the days of the lockdown, I grew some vegetable plants in my garden of a few square metres. I placed the pots side by side in different points of the garden, according to the needs of each plant species. Like never before, I had the time to watch the plants draw their paths and suggest their trajectories: small changes, unfolding day by day, became visible at naked eye. From the first greens, minuscule unripe spheres, to the tendrils, changing configuration every hour in search of a foothold – everything moved, as the blackthorn and the cherry-tree bore their first fruits

These drawings, or rather notes, translate in visual form the progression of these micro-events, absolutely normal in themselves and yet made extraordinary by the condition of suspension of time imposed by the quarantine. In these minimal lines I can see the result of that prolonged and direct observation, as in an interminable “en plein air”, restricted in
small portion of green.


Cherry-tree time, Silver Acrylic Tempera on tissue paper, 35×25 cm, 2020.