Herbarium – Landscape

…An herbarium becomes a landscape…

Wild plants that I’m collecting and I’m using in my studio and in the kitchen, pressed on Japanese paper, become the structure of the landscape itself and the memory of places.
A work that starts from the imprint of the sage leaf left by Leonardo among his projects…

  1. Caterina Sbrana, the wild herbs collected
  2. Caterina Sbrana, Herbarium Landscape-Apuane, hand pressed herbarium of wild plants, black hand made ink on japanese backed paper, cm 170×170, 2015, Amsterdam private collection
  3. Caterina Sbrana, Hand pressed herbarium, detail
  4. Caterina Sbrana, Hand pressed herbarium, 2019
  5. Caterina Sbrana, Canopo, hand pressed herbarium, black hand made ink on japanese backed paper, cm 220×120, 2018
  6. Caterina Sbrana, Hand pressed herbarium, detail
  7. Caterina Sbrana, Canopo, hand pressed herbarium of wild plants, black hand made ink on japanese backed paper, cm 220×120, 2018
  8. Leonardo, the sage leaf of the Codex Atlanticus