Davi Rabelo

The Gardner (O Jardineiro)

Image size: 4x6”

Paper size: 8x10”

Printed on Strathmore printmaking paper 280g/m2

Price: $50 Framed

This image was made in the early stages of the pandemic as our family would go for a short and visit the community garden. With our kids, we would admire the flowers blooming, the vegetables and fruits starting to grow in the early spring. Even though we were surrounded by uncertainties and anxiety, the beauty and life of that garden were a reminder that God was still actively nourishing his creation. Borrowing symbolic elements from iconography, this linocut print, was made as a personal reflection that Christ (ICXC) is the one who creates and ultimately sustains our lives. These strange times reveal our frailty, the brokenness of this world, and our need for a real hope that recognizes and confronts the deathliness that haunts us. Yet, there is still beauty to be found in God’s garden.