About the work

Poet’s Eyes on Green (Consciousness and Nature Series)

Medium: Gouache and pen on paper — 21 × 29.7 cm

Part of the series Consciousness and Nature, this work explores the reciprocal relationship between the observer and the botanical world. Starting from the study of the poet’s eye flower (Thunbergia alata), Linda Barnini reimagines each specimen as a conscious, attentive presence, able both to perceive and to be perceived. The pentagonal forms suspended above the foliage evoke the idea that all living matter has its own vibration and a silent intelligence that inhabits the landscape.

Executed on paper in an intimate 21 × 29.7 cm format, the piece sets up a technical dialogue between the atmospheric fluidity of gouache—in dense tones of forest green, black, and earth ochre—and the graphic precision of the pen. The fine concentric strokes surrounding each orange core create a vibrating aura over the organic texture of the background, offering a work of deep contemplative sensitivity, ideal for private collections and contemporary drawing cabinets.