Browsing through the paintings was a task I had to organise. To make a selection, I assigned each of my children precise tasks, engraving the following commandments in stone:
- Size of each element no larger than 8 cm
- Presence of no more than three vegetables in the scene
- Number of leaves less than 15
- Selection of autumnal/Christmas colours, with absolute exclusion of marine tones (just so as not to yearn for the memory of the sea that I would never see again because of this cruel imposition)
- Discarding spring and summer vegetables
- Preference to typically Christmas vegetables
- Discarding irrelevant documents… Patrizia! You sent us the tax declarations of the last ten years!
- Poeticism
- Pleasure for the eyes
- Fluidity of line
So I came, with Christmas in my mind and the fan in front of me, to count five paintings and assemble a scene, cutting supernumerary branches and leaves with an axe.
I also sought essentiality in the colours, but there was no way.
Too many colours.
Too beautiful.
Don’t tell Patty, but seeing them all together, I can’t wait to start embroidering….
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