I ficur’innia (Prickly Pear) print - 2022 edition

2022 limited edition print from the 2016 Wealth of the Land exhibition.

Created from the streets of La Vucciria market in Palermo 2014-2016, these prints celebrate the fruit and vegetables of the streets. The markets, established by Arabs more than 1200 years ago sell seasonal, mostly regionally grown in Sicily.

Each of the images in the show were hand drawn digital images, based on a series of photographs taken from different angles and light sources. They each took from 40-60 hours to make.

The work in Wealth of the Land was exhibited in Palermo, Darwin, Melbourne and Sydney

Limited edition print of 19
30cm x 30cm / 45cm x 45cm
Digital print on Ilford paper
Unframed

A pdf of the Wealth of the Land catalogue will be emailed to you on purchase.

2022 edition print from the 2016 Wealth of the Land exhibition.

Created from the streets of La Vucciria market in Palermo 2014-2016, these prints celebrate the fruit and vegetables of the streets. The markets, established by Arabs more than 1200 years ago sell seasonal, mostly regionally grown in Sicily.

The work in Wealth of the Land was exhibited in Palermo, Darwin, Melbourne and Sydney

Limited edition print of 19
30cm x 30cm / 45cm x 45cm
Digital print on Ilford paper
Unframed

A pdf of the Wealth of the Land catalogue will be emailed to you on purchase.

Prickly Pear
Australians have a horror of prickly pear, which as an invasive species threatened to wipe out much agricultural land. Imported from Mexico to Sicily by the Spanish, the
prickly pear was not such a threat, and in pre-Christmas months is sought after for its
fruit harvested from the wild or prickly pear farms. The image of the prickly pear in fruit is seen as a symbol of Sicily. In Italian and Palermitano the fruit is rendered as “Indian fig” reflecting early uncertainty as to where India was in relation to what we know now as South America. And like the fig, the prickly pear has hundreds of seeds.

I ficur’innia
I ficurìnnia i purtaru ‘nSicilia i spagnoli e truvaru u tirrenu tantu bbonu pi crisciri ca si sparsinu unnegghjé, tantu c’addivintaru unu ri tanti cosi chi rapprisentanu l’Isula. Si
chiamanu raccussì, picchì quannu fu scuperata l’America ci paria ca era l’India.

Ficchi d’india
Gli Australiani hanno un vero orrore per i fichi d’india, poiché una specie particolarmente invasiva ha minacciato di spazzare via una gran quantità di terreno
agricolo. Importato dal Messico in Sicilia dagli spagnoli, il fico d’India non è stato una vera minaccia, e nei mesi precedenti al Natale è molto ricercato per la raccolta dei suoi frutti, che siano quelli spontanei o quelli coltivati. L’immagine del frutto del fico d’india è visto come un simbolo in Sicilia. In italiano e palermitano il frutto è tradotto come “Fico d’India” riflettendo così l’errore di Colombo che si convinse la terra scoperta fosse l’India. Quella stessa terra che oggi conosciamo come America. E così come il fico, anche il fico d’india contiene tantissimi semi.