I frauli e ceusi niuri (Baby strawberries & mulberries) print - 2022 edition

2022 limited edition prints 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.

Baby strawberries & mulberries
These fruits, appear very similar, and hit the markets at the same time: but they are very different. Strawberries are produced by a plant that originally grew wild in the forest; mulberry trees, with both white and black fruit, are produced by large trees. The latter have had great economic importance in Sicily because they are
cultivated for the production of the silkworm.

I frauli e ceusi niuri
‘Sta frutta, a prima vista s’assumigghia pa’ so forma, ma poi cunuscennula megghiu si viri ca sunnu ddiversi. I frauli i fannu pianticeddi nichi ‘nne voschi; inveci i ceusi bianchi e niuri, i fannu arbuli assai granni. Chisti ‘ntempi antichi vinevanu chiantati picchì sirbevanu pi’ l’innustria ra sita, ca era troppu ‘mpurtanti.

Le fragoline e i gelsi neri
Questi frutti, apparentemente si somigliano molto per la loro struttura, ma sono molto
diversi in quanto le fragoline sono prodotte da una piantina che vive nei boschi; invece i gelsi, sia essi bianchi che neri, sono prodotti da grandi alberi. Questi ultimi hanno avuto grandissima importanza economica in Sicilia perché coltivati per la produzione del baco da seta.