Archontophoenix cunninghamiana
Piccabeen palm inflorescence
A palm’s future travels on wings.
The piccabeen palm wears its fruit like a jewelled crown of ruby gems. Birds feed on the fruit, carrying seeds from the palm that produced them.
The inflorescence shape is lasercut from a wet cyanotype made with a piccabeen frond.
Behind it, embossed Wompoo fruit-doves and the branching inflorescence give shape to this relationship.
Food for birds offers the possibility of new growth. As birds feed and seeds travel, new palms can take root and carry the forest forward.
Lasercut wet cyanotype floating over blind embossing
250gsm Fleur de Coton printmaking paper
Artwork: 44 × 27 cm
Frame: 72 × 52.5 cm
Framed in an oak frame behind non-reflective UV glass
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Images below: lasercut Piccabeen palm wet cyanotype; backing embossing; lasercut over embossing detail.
