Vida Muerta – Artist Book

Edition: 50

Vida Muerta is a handmade artist book inspired by and printed in Encina de San Silvestre, a dying little village in the countryside of Salamanca, Spain.

Technique: Etching on aluminum plate, 6 pages, 9.8x7cm, Biblos / Hahnemühle Paper.

Here is an English translation:

Still life: Sketches of a remote village

We don’t speak of tomorrow
and in the blink of an eye, fall has come

in the infinite fields, the oak trees of Forever

the mulberry tree gives its black
shade back to the earth
but it doesn’t carry flowers or fruit

The sky has fallen into the open roofs
and sleeps where nobody wakes up anymore

now, the stones are telling everything
but there is nobody who would listen

the dog calls the sky
but the mistress doesn’t call
the dog anymore

everything returns to be a sketch
before it is gone forever