no 16. Flor Negra
Catalan: Black Flower
A flower born from the black of the darkest nights, the deepest wells and a thousand black ants. She opens in quiet, darkest time. Some people exctract a great pain from her, but it is not what she is for.
Illustration for poetry by the Catalan poet Mercè Rodoreda, from the volume "Flors de Debò" ("True Flowers"). Description and titles based on the translation by Barbara Łuczak.
The writer, beloved by Catalans, was both a flower lover and a person with unbridled imagination and great emotional sensitivity. The flowers in her poetic prose are multidimensional characters, they take the reader into a completely wild and free gallop of associations. So there is a flower from the Forest of Broken Mirrors, a flower from the black of a thousand black ants, a fork fish, giggling bouquets that flow down rivers to the sea, flowers traveling on their bulbs like flocks of ducks, etc.
Illustrations from the "Fantastic Herbarium" were exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in Krakow, at Planet 11 in Olsztyn and at the Stargard Cultural Center.
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