FLORES NEGRAS

Hand-stamped on corduroy, hand-painted with metallic reliefs yellow background 

135 × 47 cm

A single stem rises against a deep black ground. The leaves — white, stripped back — alternate with metallized forms that catch the light and return it changed. The work cuts a toothed oval silhouette against a warm ochre field. At the base, three small black flowers close the composition like a quiet signature.

Stamped on corduroy, hand-painted and finished with metallic reliefs. The velvet ground adds depth to a black that in this work is not absence — it is weight.

The work proposes a botany that does not imitate nature — it distills it. A single stem organizes the plane vertically, and the leaves that branch from it alternate between the flatness of white and the glint of metallic relief: two temporalities held inside the same form.

The black field is not background — it is territory. Cut into a toothed oval against warm ochre, it establishes an inside and an outside, an interior space where the plant exists as if protected, almost ritual.

Corduroy as a support is not a neutral choice: it absorbs light differently than linen or cotton, makes black blacker, lets the metallics shine with greater restraint. The material is part of the meaning.

At the base, three small floral forms act as a closing — a vegetal footnote that anchors the vertical composition and suggests origin, root, beginning.