U prunu (The plum) 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.

The plum
Plums are often harvested twice in Sicily, so successive waves of different cultivars come into the markets from April through to September, and variously sweet or tart
depending on variety. Linguistically confusing, as ever! The Sicilian prunu comes from the writing of Pliny the Elder, a first century Roman historian and scholar; the Italian
draws susino/susina from much later Vulgar Latin. And in Australia the word prune
usually applies to the dried fruit, or juice.

U prunu
‘Nsicilia i pruna si ponnu truvari tutta ‘a stati picchi ci nni sunnu diversi tipi, chiddi chi
maturanu prima echiddi chi maturanu doppu. Sunnu ruci o asprigni, assicunnu u tipu. ‘Nta l’Australia a parola “prunu” si usa sulu pa’ frutta sicca.

La susina
In Sicilia molte varietà di susine vengono raccolte in tempi diversi perché diversificata la loro maturazione prettamente estiva; dolci o aspre in modo diverso, a seconda della varietà. Origine linguistica confusa, come al solito! Il siciliano prunu deriva dagli scritti di Plinio il Vecchio, uno storico e studioso romano del primo secolo; l’italiano trae susino/susina dal più tardo latino volgare. E in Australia la parola prune è si adopera in genere per la frutta secca o il succo.