Plant Portraits

植  物  肖  像
2023



Author: Feng Ge

Design: Feng Ge & Shi Luyao

Size: 21*27cm

Binding: single side printing book





"Plant Portraits" collected Ge's tree-themed paintings in the past two years.

This series of paintings started in the summer of 2020, when the daily life of the whole world was changed due to the epidemic. There is no academic and social interaction, but a lot of time to watch. Just watching, past and present.

When those grand narratives can't fill the holes in daily life, the small visual fragments can weave a net like vines. The tree outside the house, the tree in the photo, the tree that gave me shelter. I stared at them with interest, and this kind of watching went through a process from enthusiasm to calmness, gradually getting farther away from reality and closer to myself.





Inside Pages



“The process of painting trees is a bit like painting portraits of people.

Looking at their crowns, their branches, their bodies.

Guessing how old they are, how healthy they are and what happened to them.

And occasionally produces feelings of inferiority or pity,

which is similar to what people feel when their gazes converge.”











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