The Female Cone
silkscreen on paper
2019

About the Artwork

Well known characteristics of the ‘Cedrus Libani’ are its female cones that sit heavily on branches growing skywards. In the months where resin oozes out of her cracks, the male pollen is blown into the cone to fertilise seeds in her ovules inducing the female cone to tumble to the ground. This is the symbol of the life of a Lebanese cedar tree and the course that grants its vulnerable survival.