Lemon Self Portrait 1
2014
encaustic lemon infused pollen on cardboard
45.5 x 34.5 centimeters
Unique
The Lemon Self Portrait series depicts the intimate relationship of the artist with a lemon tree he is growing in his studio. Because of the lack of bees indoors, ESTEP has tasked himself with the pollination of his lemon tree: using a painter's brush, he compensates this organic process. At the same time, he set aside a small amount of pollen, and infused it with a white encaustic medium. Using a blind contour approach, this mixture of pollen and encaustic was used to sketch the lemon tree itself, which at the same time bore no fruit. Leaving an almost invisible trace on a cardboard shadowbox collar, ESTEP has produced these delicately subtle drawings.
Lemon Self Portrait 2
2014
43.5 x 33 centimeters
Unique
The Lemon Self Portrait series depicts the intimate relationship of the artist with a lemon tree he is growing in his studio. Because of the lack of bees indoors, ESTEP has tasked himself with the pollination of his lemon tree: using a painter's brush, he compensates this organic process. At the same time, he set aside a small amount of pollen, and infused it with a white encaustic medium. Using a blind contour approach, this mixture of pollen and encaustic was used to sketch the lemon tree itself, which at the same time bore no fruit. Leaving an almost invisible trace on a cardboard shadowbox collar, ESTEP has produced these delicately subtle drawings.
Lemon Self Portrait 3
2014
43.5 x 33 centimeters
Unique
The Lemon Self Portrait series depicts the intimate relationship of the artist with a lemon tree he is growing in his studio. Because of the lack of bees indoors, ESTEP has tasked himself with the pollination of his lemon tree: using a painter's brush, he compensates this organic process. At the same time, he set aside a small amount of pollen, and infused it with a white encaustic medium. Using a blind contour approach, this mixture of pollen and encaustic was used to sketch the lemon tree itself, which at the same time bore no fruit. Leaving an almost invisible trace on a cardboard shadowbox collar, ESTEP has produced these delicately subtle drawings.
Lemon Self Portrait 4
2014
encaustic lemon infused pollen on cardboard
45.5 x 34.5 centimeters
Unique
The Lemon Self Portrait series depicts the intimate relationship of the artist with a lemon tree he is growing in his studio. Because of the lack of bees indoors, ESTEP has tasked himself with the pollination of his lemon tree: using a painter's brush, he compensates this organic process. At the same time, he set aside a small amount of pollen, and infused it with a white encaustic medium. Using a blind contour approach, this mixture of pollen and encaustic was used to sketch the lemon tree itself, which at the same time bore no fruit. Leaving an almost invisible trace on a cardboard shadowbox collar, ESTEP has produced these delicately subtle drawings.
Lemon Self Portrait 5
2014
43.5 x 33 centimeters
Unique
The Lemon Self Portrait series depicts the intimate relationship of the artist with a lemon tree he is growing in his studio. Because of the lack of bees indoors, ESTEP has tasked himself with the pollination of his lemon tree: using a painter's brush, he compensates this organic process. At the same time, he set aside a small amount of pollen, and infused it with a white encaustic medium. Using a blind contour approach, this mixture of pollen and encaustic was used to sketch the lemon tree itself, which at the same time bore no fruit. Leaving an almost invisible trace on a cardboard shadowbox collar, ESTEP has produced these delicately subtle drawings.
Lemon Self Portrait 6
2014
encaustic lemon infused pollen on cardboard
44.5 x 34.5 centimeters
Unique
The Lemon Self Portrait series depicts the intimate relationship of the artist with a lemon tree he is growing in his studio. Because of the lack of bees indoors, ESTEP has tasked himself with the pollination of his lemon tree: using a painter's brush, he compensates this organic process. At the same time, he set aside a small amount of pollen, and infused it with a white encaustic medium. Using a blind contour approach, this mixture of pollen and encaustic was used to sketch the lemon tree itself, which at the same time bore no fruit. Leaving an almost invisible trace on a cardboard shadowbox collar, ESTEP has produced these delicately subtle drawings.
