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GERANIUM MOLLE (THE DOVE’S-FOOT CRANE’S-BILL OR DOVESFOOT), 2021 WATERCOLOR ON PAPAER
31.4X31.4 IN. | 80X80 CM.
ART AND ARTISTS

BARBARA PAZZAGLIA
Lives and works in Rome, Italy
https://www.celesteprize.com/barbara.pazzaglia

Nature is a primary inspiration for me. I have a transcendental by Louis XIV to locate new plants, many of which are found in
idealistic love of it like Merleau Ponty does of knowledge. In Giverny in Monet’s garden.
which there is identification between me and nature that can Furthermore, the decor of Versailles created by Louis XIV is
be drawn through intuition and contemplation. My favorite also a source of inspiration since the similarity is no longer
nature is the one found in Himalayas where there is no dust a source of knowledge, but rather the occasion for error,
nor humidity. The Himalayan plants were brought to France the danger to which we expose ourselves when we do not
by the botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, commissioned examine the bad place shadowed by confusion (Foucault).

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