L’orto dei frutti dimenticati

L’ORTO DEI FRUTTI DIMENTICATI

“L’Orto dei Frutti Dimenticati” by Dave Tavanti turns its attention to a tree in its final phase. Once the symbolic centre of the garden that hosted it, the tree persists in a state of slow dissolution — its remaining leaves still catching infrared light, glowing with a residual energy that underscores both fragility and endurance.

The infrared process gives the image its particular emotional register: what is alive still glows, what is gone leaves only a dark outline. The contrast between luminous foliage and bare branches becomes a visual record of time — of what has been lost set against what has not yet departed.

The concept behind the work

This work is a meditation on the value that outlasts function. What loses its productive role, a tree no longer bearing fruit, a presence no longer required, does not therefore lose its meaning. It continues to occupy space, to cast shadow, to register in the memory of those who knew it.

The title carries its own quiet irony: the fruits are forgotten, but the tree that bore them is not. Even in its decline, it glows. The infrared light finds what remains alive and makes it visible, a reminder that presence and utility are not the same thing, and that what is disappearing continues, somehow, to leave traces.