We have a fig tree outside our kitchen. For years I have noticed the
beauty of the leaves - especially when backlit by the sun. Over the years I
have tried a number of techniques to ‘artistically interpret’ the leaves until
I finally realised that the natural design was simply too strong and as such,
perfect.
The vein pattern on the leaf has been interpreted in Biblical text which
I use as a metaphor for the design code underlying all natural systems. The fig
leaf contains four complete books of the Bible – Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes
and Song of Solomon. The scale of the work and the laborious, time-consuming
act of typing the text word by word means that I have worked on it for 2 years.
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