Federica Belloli - Grafted light

This work continues the Resilience series, where fracture is not hidden but repaired, and where repair itself becomes part of the subject represented.

In this painting, gold no longer follows only the crack—it begins to sprout and grow. Like a graft, something that takes root and binds.

There is a force in Nature that does not resist by opposing, but by adapting, by growing again. It is the same force that allows green to return over stone, to hold and rebuild without erasing what has been. This work moves within that same logic.

The surface of the painting integrates botanical collage on black tissue paper, where fragile elements are absorbed into the structure, becoming both trace and connection. The gold moves through them not as decoration, but as a line of continuity.

Work executed with acrylic colors and collage on birch wood cradled panel.
The botanical prints were handmade with leaves on tissue paper. The edges are painted and the painting is ready to hang. The surface is finished with a double layer of water-based satin varnish, which makes it resistant to UV rays and the passage of time.

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