La cirasi (Cherries) 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.

Cherries
The sweet cherry has been cultivated since prehistoric times across western Asia, north Africa and Europe, and would seem to have come to Sicily via Anatolia in what is now northern Turkey, and then Greece: indeed the word for cherry derives from the Greek place name Cerasus, from which the cherry was first exported to Europe.

La cirasi
I ruçi çirasi si canuscinu ri sempri a ttutti bbanni e a quantu pari arrivaru ‘n Sicilia ddoppu ra Grecia, e si chiamanu accussì picchì propiu dda u so nnomu era chistu.

La ciliegie
La dolce ciliegia era nota sin dai tempi preistorici lungo l’Asia dell’ovest, Europa
e sembrerebbe arrivata in Sicilia attraverso l’Anatolia quella che oggi è la Turchia del
nord, e dopo in Grecia; certamente la parola ciliegia deriva dal nome del luogo greco
Cerasus, dal quale la ciliegia fu per la prima volta esportata in Europa.