Untitled (lemons)
Marianna Zantedeschi
From a blank white roll to a burst of color.
At first, the gesture is attentive, almost hesitant—guided by insecurity, careful not to disturb the silence of the surface. Gradually, the movement changes. It grows more impulsive, more grasping, yet never loses the gentle brush of the hand that began it all.
Plants slowly shift into body parts. Leaves thicken into fingers; stems curve into wrists. Hands appear—holding lemons, holding each other—suspended in an intertwining of shades, an intertwining of shades where color becomes touch and touch becomes form.
What begins as observation turns into contact. What starts in restraint unfolds into urgency. Nature and flesh dissolve into one another in a gradual chromatic metamorphosis, until the white is no longer empty but alive—vibrating, intimate, and irreversibly transformed.
Drawing & Storytelling
