U ciuru ri cucuzza (The pumpkin flower) 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.

The pumpkin flower
The appearance of the flowers of pumpkins and zucchini signals the arrival of the
vegetables themselves in mid to late summer. The flowers are used in cooking: raw in salads, or lightly fried with or without stuffing. Zucca
is from a Late Latin word, cucutia.

U ciuru ri cucuzza
Quannu si viri u çiuri ri cucuzza, chistu è signu ca semu già ‘nna ‘stati. E bbonu e
dduci e avi tanti maneri ri essiri cuçinatu: ammuttunatu e frittu, nna pasta, cu rrisu, a
timballu o furnu e ca frocia.

Il fiore di zucca
La comparsa del fiore delle zucche e delle zucchine segna l’arrivo delle verdure stesse da metà sino a fine dell’estate. I fiori sono usati in cucina: crudi in insalata, o leggermente fritti con o senza ripieno. La zucca deriva dal tardo latino, cucutia.