The Botanique collection takes the techniques and subjects typical of 17th century
botanical essays and brings them back into
the present in a more contemporary light.
Through the use of copper engraving, plant
elements appear between the blank pages, an expression of creativity in between
decorative values and scientific knowledge.
The thin lines and flat fields of color immediately recall the engravings on metal
plates, made through a mixture of acids and
inks poured on zinc and copper supports. In
between the numerous illustrations, minute
details come alive, a showcase of a profound
study of the floral elements represented.
Every graphic in the color palette brings
forward a lush and changing nature to the
eye of the viewer, full of the mellow tones
of the earth, the bright colors of the flora,
shrouded in a soft light almost like a witness
to the passing of time and seasons. Thus
Botanique is born, a pastel garden that slowly reveals its mysteries.
A world in tension between light and shadow, imprisoned between alchemical mysticism and the scientific method, where
the white of the seabed alternates with the
colors of the seasons, but also the colors of
metals such as gold and silver.