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Eugene Carches io
Dead leaves of Tokyo
1999
Dead leaves of Tokyo
is a series of watercolour studies of leaves
picked up by the artist during a residency in Tokyo. Setting a limit
of one per day and only painting when he found a leaf he felt
was right, Carchesio maintained a relationship to a particular
place and time. For him, the leaves are not botanical illustrations
but intimate, personal meditations on life, death and the
impermanence of all things.
Eugene Carchesio
/ Australia b.1960 /
Dead leaves of Tokyo
1999 / Sketchbook containing 39 compositions, occupying 43 leaves; watercolour on paper / 43 leaves: 35.6 x 28cm
(each) / Acc. 1999.136a–mm / Purchased 1999. Ivy Lillian Walton Bequest