Tree of Young Love, photograph
Black and white photograph entitled “Tree of Young Love”, by Diana Lui.
Silver print by Choi, edition 3/10. Location: Djurgarden Park, Stockholm, Sweden.
“The light had fallen, dusk veiled the sky. From far away,
I saw this tree shaped like an octopus turned upside down.
Two dark forms were moving among the tree branches.
When I was near enough, I saw that these dark forms were
children, hanging from the branches like silent monkeys.
I climbed into the tree which seemed to be inviting me with
its tentacle-like branches. These branches were strong like
hard, muscled arms under my fingers. Then all of a sudden
I noticed initials of people’s names and little hearts carved
discreetly into the branches all over the tree. Everyone
mentioned on this tree was in love. All around me, when
I looked hard enough were shy declarations of love…”
Diana Lui
Diana Lui talks about women…. Women’s bodies, discreet women with their backs to you who reveal more of their soul than you would see from an expression, or leaning against the wall, under the kindly glance of someone, us perhaps.
This photographer has everything you could imagine from a talented composer: juggling with colors and shadows, precious fabrics and skin textures, veils over tidy, disarranged or unkempt hair … The body is a living thing, rotund and eloquent… The unveiled woman is sensual and captivating, and draws the eye to examine her better …
Her formats (117×143) provide the framework for free, cheerful expression. The mixed colors fade and return, playing with contrasts, highlighting the extreme sensuality of the bodies.
Diana Lui’s marvelous gift is that she knows how to pass on in her compositions her deep love of women, who unveil themselves, uncover themselves, whose curves take shape gradually and are only revealed in an ultimate inspiration.
Her music creates magic impasses near a woman who we see leaning on an armchair, unexpected detours near powerful veined trees, giving rise to small artistic miracles.
The aim is to give breath and color to each face and find in each of them a primeval image of release of desire.
A woman with a double personality – Mady & Monette – posing the enigma of playful genetic, a bold, animal, panther skin, Black and white imparting the expectation of a future dream. … A Sun flower with a hesitant expression, a woman is multi-faceted and beautiful, primitive and universal, captured by the artist’s lens.
The eye and the emotion travel with her from one universe to another, never tossed about in space, carried along by an incredible energy which always makes you want to look a bit closer …
Diana Lui talks about women…. Women’s bodies, discreet women with their backs to you who reveal more of their soul than you would see from an expression, or leaning against the wall, under the kindly glance of someone, us perhaps.
This photographer has everything you could imagine from a talented composer: juggling with colors and shadows, precious fabrics and skin textures, veils over tidy, disarranged or unkempt hair … The body is a living thing, rotund and eloquent… The unveiled woman is sensual and captivating, and draws the eye to examine her better …