NoMangrove 01

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80×80 cm, 2020
This painting is inspired by the book “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel. In the summer of 2021 this painting was exhibited in multiple exhibitions in India. 

“[…] The trees remained. In fact, they grew to be a forest. […] The trees were beautiful. They were like none I had ever seen before. […] I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall. I looked down. I was both satisfied and disappointed with what I saw. The island had no soil. […] The bark was greyish green in colour, thin and smooth, and soft enough that I could mark it with my fingernail. […] The head of the tree had the lovely full roundness of a mango tree, but it was not a mango. I thought it smelled somewhat like a lote tree, but it wasn’t a lote either. Nor a mangrove. Nor any other tree I had ever seen. All I know was that it was beautiful and green and lush with leaves. […]” (from chapter 92 of “Life of Pi”, by Yann Martel).

This artwork was exhibited in India in 2021 and in Germany in 2024.