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The Lost Fruits by Tillian

“‘The Lost Fruits’ is a story of infusions, languages borrowed from other stars; an oasis perhaps, where memories gather. Flavours untasted since the first garden; fruits that would be poisonous to the apes of another world, fruits that cluster and fruits that shoot-forth strange new trees” Tillian

The Lost Fruits is a lush, visionary painting that oscillates between the botanical and the celestial, inviting viewers into a dreamlike zone of hybridity—where Edenic memory and interstellar myth converge in a forest of symbolic form. At first glance, the composition appears anchored in a landscape tradition, yet the formal language is unmistakably modernist: boldly stylised, semi-abstracted flora twist into near-anthropomorphic gestalts, their curves and volumes suggestive of both fecundity and artifice. This is a site of generative strangeness. Biodiversity is being lost, piece by piece. Now only the imagination can savour the lost fruits of a pre-globalised past.

Chromatically, the painting is suffused with saturated greens, aquas, and citrines—tones that evoke photosynthesis, primal vegetation, and aqueous life. Yet the intrusion of alien reds and geometrically faceted forms (bottom left and centre-right) disrupts any pastoral tranquility. These are not merely decorative inflections, but signals of epistemological rupture: these are not fruits we know.

The painting’s language, as Tillian’s statement suggests, is borrowed—from other stars, from other cognitive realms. One feels the presence of a cosmogonic botany: fruits that belong to the lost garden before Genesis or beyond Earth. The small bark-like shape in the lower right quadrant, floating on a silvery estuary, could be a relic or vessel—an ark or a pod—emphasising the mythic transit of these “lost fruits” across time and dimension.

Ultimately, The Lost Fruits stands as a testament to the artist’s ability to fuse ecological sensibility with speculative mythology. It evokes a terrain both deeply rooted and extra-terrestrially untethered—a visionary garden whose fruits can never be fully known, only longed for.

Flow Acrylic on cradled wood panel.

Gloss varnished with UV protection.

Edges sealed with black lacquer.

Mounted in Tasmanian Oak box frame, danish oiled.

Ready to hang with D-rings and cable. Signed/dated bottom right. Certificate of authenticity.

Limited edition GICLEE prints A2 (42cmx59cm) also available

The Lost Fruits

Tillian

AUD$3,400
Size: 126w x 96h x 4d cms
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The Lost Fruits by Tillian

“‘The Lost Fruits’ is a story of infusions, languages borrowed from other stars; an oasis perhaps, where memories gather. Flavours untasted since the first garden; fruits that would be poisonous to the apes of another world, fruits that cluster and fruits that shoot-forth strange new trees” Tillian

The Lost Fruits is a lush, visionary painting that oscillates between the botanical and the celestial, inviting viewers into a dreamlike zone of hybridity—where Edenic memory and interstellar myth converge in a forest of symbolic form. At first glance, the composition appears anchored in a landscape tradition, yet the formal language is unmistakably modernist: boldly stylised, semi-abstracted flora twist into near-anthropomorphic gestalts, their curves and volumes suggestive of both fecundity and artifice. This is a site of generative strangeness. Biodiversity is being lost, piece by piece. Now only the imagination can savour the lost fruits of a pre-globalised past.

Chromatically, the painting is suffused with saturated greens, aquas, and citrines—tones that evoke photosynthesis, primal vegetation, and aqueous life. Yet the intrusion of alien reds and geometrically faceted forms (bottom left and centre-right) disrupts any pastoral tranquility. These are not merely decorative inflections, but signals of epistemological rupture: these are not fruits we know.

The painting’s language, as Tillian’s statement suggests, is borrowed—from other stars, from other cognitive realms. One feels the presence of a cosmogonic botany: fruits that belong to the lost garden before Genesis or beyond Earth. The small bark-like shape in the lower right quadrant, floating on a silvery estuary, could be a relic or vessel—an ark or a pod—emphasising the mythic transit of these “lost fruits” across time and dimension.

Ultimately, The Lost Fruits stands as a testament to the artist’s ability to fuse ecological sensibility with speculative mythology. It evokes a terrain both deeply rooted and extra-terrestrially untethered—a visionary garden whose fruits can never be fully known, only longed for.

Flow Acrylic on cradled wood panel.

Gloss varnished with UV protection.

Edges sealed with black lacquer.

Mounted in Tasmanian Oak box frame, danish oiled.

Ready to hang with D-rings and cable. Signed/dated bottom right. Certificate of authenticity.

Limited edition GICLEE prints A2 (42cmx59cm) also available

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