Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Elegancia y renuncia, 2011
Dried leaf (ficus elastica japonicum), metal stands and slide projection (filter ref. 140 summer blue)
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3
Elegancia y renuncia consists of a dried leave held at its stem by a metal stand on which a slide projector shines light through a prepared slide. Two groups of tiny differently sized circles (one of three, the other of six) have been incised in the somewhat elliptical (lanceolate) shaped ficus leave—this alteration however becomes visible mainly because of the light from the slide projector. The intensity of the luminous glow of the circular shapes created on the leave (although it seems as if the pattern were even emanating from within it) by the projector seems extraordinary and counterintuitive since the distance between them is so great.