Title: “DRAGON TONGUE”
Size: 22.5” W x 13.5” H (unframed)
Story:
Since the early 1900’s, it is believed over ninety percent of crop varieties have disappeared. With the advent of supermarkets, it is individuals handing down seeds passed through the generations that have allowed vegetables to appear at farmer’s market under the title we use today, “heirloom.” Many heirlooms have exotic and fancy names to go with their pure, wonderful tastes. The Dragon Tongue bean was first blended in the nineteenth century in the Netherlands, and somehow made it to the United States and survived. After tasting this lovely variety picked fresh, I can only say support those who keep the heirlooms alive. One taste and you’ll understand.
Materials:
Acrylic paints on heavy watercolor paper, bathed in archival UV-resistant polymers, bordered with insets of 1800’s Japanese calligraphy from a grocer’s ledger of accounts, accented at each corner with a rare 10th – 12th century Chinese cash coin, affixed with melted religious wax collected from holy temples and monasteries, with outside border panels of French botanical linen in pen and ink overprinted with metallic and luminescent paints applied using a 16th century Pali prayer book cover, all mounted onto archival museum board.
For more information and pricing please contact Thomas Anthony Gallery in Park City, UT at 435-645-8078.
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