Interstice #3

The same gaze, alighted elsewhere. In this third fragment torn from the great painted jungle, the parakeet — blue and white, its beak a vivid yellow — has migrated: a few centimetres across the canvas, another world within the diorama. There it is, very small, perched at the edge of a layer of cut paper, as though it were now watching the one who watches it. A wordless confrontation, at the heart of a vegetation that absorbs everything.

Same technique, same patience: offcuts of heavy paper painted in acrylic across every shade of green, cut with a scalpel, assembled in successive layers on foam board. Depth emerges from this patient stratification — plane by plane, space hollows out, the scene comes alive. The circular mount frames the scene like a lens trained on the infinitely alive.

A unique, signed piece. Framed and ready to hang. A window opened onto a world where vegetation reigns in its full majesty — and where a small parakeet, perfectly still, reminds us with quiet irony that lightness is not frivolity: it may well be the most closely guarded wisdom of all living things.

Original artwork, signed and dated 2024. Delivered with certificate of authenticity.

Technical Specifications

• Medium: Acrylic on heavy paper offcuts, foam board
• Techniques: Acrylic paint, scalpel cutting, diorama assembly, circular mount
• Framed dimensions: 25 × 25 cm
• Frame: Wood fibre panel, metallic birch-pattern paper with protective synthetic glass — can be hung on the wall or displayed on a flat surface

One-of-a-kind piece — Hand-signed by the artist Julia Ratsimandresy