{"title":"Cabinet of Small Worlds","description":"\u003cp\u003eEach year, one painting. Every bottle, every object, every colour on the shelf – a day, a thought, a moment from that year, encoded in watercolour on paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cabinet of Small Worlds paintings are Léna Ruisz's annual visual diaries: dense, maximalist compositions where dozens of hand-painted objects share space on dark shelves, each one a private notation that together form a complete year. The paintings quote each other – a bottle from one cabinet reappears on a shelf in the next, a colour swatch references a painting from another series, a handwritten text becomes a framed picture-within-a-picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery print is a giclée fine art print on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm – a heavyweight, finely textured mould-made paper of 100% alpha-cellulose, acid- and lignin-free to museum archival standard, with very low optical-brightener content. Printed with pigment-based archival inks, not dye: lightfast and water-resistant, made to hold colour for generations under indoor display, out of direct sunlight. Available in five square sizes from 20 × 20 cm (7.9 × 7.9 in) to 60 × 60 cm (23.6 × 23.6 in).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFree shipping worldwide. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"invictus-maximalist-fine-art-print","title":"Invictus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne year of a life, the whole of it, painted onto a single square. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA maximalist watercolour cabinet on black, rendered as an archival fine art print. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach cabinet here is a diary of one year, and because it is a diary it holds the paintings I made that year, painted in miniature on its shelves. This was the first of them, named for the poem I lived in that year, Henley's Invictus, which is written straight into the shelves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt rewards looking, because it holds the others. Hung small on its shelves are Still Falling, The Watcher, Making Light and Spoor; the framed dot panel marked O Nata Lux is Prima Materia. Worked in among the bottles as objects, not pictures, are the bowl from Kintsugi and the waking monks of Before the Bell. There is sheet music in it too, Monteverdi's Duo Seraphim, a piece especially dear to me. The whole Henley poem is written in among the labelled bottles: peace, breath, stardust, colour. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA calm woman in deep sun-orange, a textile in her hair, sits near the top. I am in it too, on the right, with short hair. And somewhere a black cat is hiding, the way one hides in every painting I make.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is painted on black in watercolour, and parts of the surface are crazed to break like glass, a gum-arabic method I worked out myself. The colour is everything I owned that year, turned all the way up against the dark, because the dark is what lets the colour be seen. The original is 22 centimetres square, which makes each of those paintings-within smaller than a fingernail. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe other cabinets feel alive. This one is still, a single year held like a photograph. That is the reason to live with it: a year that happened once, fixed on paper, and will not come again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003ePrinted to order on Hahnemühle German Etching, a heavyweight 310gsm mould-made fine art paper, acid- and lignin-free to museum standard, with archival pigment inks. A giclée from an original watercolour by Léna Ruisz, never a mass reproduction, colour-managed to stay true to the original painting. 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An archival fine art print. Each of these cabinets records a single year, and it is filled with the work from that year, shrunk down and set inside. This is the green one, the happiest year I have had: the lower shelves are ordered, outlined, every bottle labelled, and the green comes in from above and spreads down over them until the cabinet disappears under it. The plant on the lower shelf is where I stopped outlining and let the rest run wild, so you can find the exact line where one becomes the other. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHung and shelved inside it are Our Life Pictured and the waking monks of Before the Bell, the bowl from Kintsugi here whole again, and the dot fields of Prima Materia in the upper right beside a mosaic star from Gaudí's Park Güell. Dead centre, as a cutout, sits the cabinet from the year before, the dark one, still to join the collection. A calm woman in blue with leaves in her hair sits in the middle, and around her are bees, mountains, and the real mushrooms I picked in Austria that year. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe greens are watercolour bound in honey and gum arabic, the same paint the Impressionists used; where they let it dissolve into light, I keep it dense and draw into every inch. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe original is 27 centimetres square, a whole year set onto it, and it keeps giving the longer you look. I have looked at it every day since I painted it and still find things I did not remember were there. No other year will look like this one, and this is the only place it still exists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePrinted to order on Hahnemühle German Etching, a heavyweight 310gsm mould-made fine art paper, acid- and lignin-free to museum standard, with archival pigment inks. 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It is a zoom into Green Cabinet, into the green that was already taking the top of it, opened up and walked into. There are no shelves left to see. The cabinet is still under there, the same order and structure, but the growth has covered it completely, and not being able to find it is the point. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is about the one thing nature always does, which is grow and cover everything. Nothing in it is fixed. Where the first cabinet holds a year perfectly still, this one will not hold still at all; it feels as though it could grow overnight and be different by morning. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe whole picture is green, every value from near-black to the freshest light green, and it breathes at a single point: the warm peach-red rose at the centre, where the eye lands. 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You have pulled the leaves apart and found the world growing underneath, and the green painted in behind tells you that you are inside it. After rain is when mushrooms grow, and that is all the name means. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the simple one. The others are years to read; this is a hideaway you sit inside, green all around, sunlight through the leaves, the insects moving. It is full of small treasures, the kind that are valuable only because you found them, the way a rock you picked up as a child was the best thing you owned that year. They are mine, but they are finds, not memories. These are just mushrooms. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe whole green background is not a wash but hundreds of separate leaves, each with its own edge, and I painted them last, after the picture was finished and unfixed. 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