Continuing with my Visual Diary project, throughout 2023 I chose the plant world as my guide: silhouette and line as my language, a black stain unfolded across the double-page spread where a white line comes to life and defines the forms emerging from the silence.
A year of imaginary cultivation where day after day, images of an invented botany sprouted. Leaves that never existed, flowers of impossible geometries, and fruits born from the stroke were added one by one to weave a harvest of paper and ink—a herbarium of the non-existent.
In shaping this book, the illustrations found their natural order by following the rhythm of an agricultural almanac: a calendar that offers not just the passage of time, but also the secrets of sowing, tending, and harvesting. All of this is organized according to the 1792 Republican Calendar, created after the French Revolution, transporting us to the Age of Enlightenment, where cataloging and encyclopedic order create the perfect framework for collecting this botany of the imagination.
Pep Carrió