About the work

Birch Forest (Consciousness and Nature Series)

Medium: Wax pastel, graphite, and colored pencils on paper — 21 × 29.7 cm — 2026

The second work in the series Consciousness and Nature, this piece extends the inquiry into the silent gaze of the plant world to the vertical architecture of the forest. As with the poet’s eye flower, Linda Barnini finds in the natural markings of birch bark an organic suggestion of eyes that watch with calm and steadiness. The forest ceases to be a merely passive setting and reveals itself as an attentive collective, reversing the traditional roles of viewer and landscape.

Executed in 2026 on paper in a 21 × 29.7 cm format, the composition stands out for its tactile richness and vertical rhythm. The white trunks, worked in textured relief and expressive graphite strokes, emerge in the foreground against an atmospheric background built up in layers of wax pastel and colored pencil in ochres, greens, and subtle flashes of blue. This combination of material density and drawing makes the work a singular, immersive piece for contemporary collections of works on paper.