Cucumber Seedling Drawing

In March 2020 I have started a visual journal, drawing thoughts and feelings in relation to living closer to nature, isolation, my understanding of this strange world as well as to my readings about ecology and permaculture. “Maia Ștefana Oprea combines this unique artistic practice with a bespoke lifestyle, cultivating sustainably and eco the art of living and creating.” (Ana Daniela Sultana, “The eco art of living and creating”, 2020) This drawing is number # 7. CUCUMBER SEEDLING prismacolor on paper, 31 x 34 cm, 29 March, 2020 Every morning I spend a lot of time watering seeds, sprouts, seedlings, vegetables, probably this was the time spent on the means of transportation while we were still living in the city, before moving to the countryside. I identify with these plants which seem to be of infinite kindness, I take care of them, sometimes I neglect my own children to grow them. I stop at a little leaf and I want to draw her, but quickly, because the day is no longer the same. And I remember a passage from Alain de Botton's book The Challenges and Sorrows of Work, in which he tells of a British painter who makes a series of portrait paintings of a tree, eternally the same tree. “He never wanted to paint the work of people, their factories, streets or electronic circuit boards. His attention was drawn to those things that, because we didn't build them, we have to make an exceptional effort of empathy and imagination to understand them, of a natural environment that is completely unpredictable because it is literally impossible to anticipate. . The devotion with which he researches a tree is an attempt to set himself apart and take note of everything that is otherness and beyond us "

Drawing:Conte on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:13.4 W x 12.2 H x 0 D in

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