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Seeds lie at the heart of nature's renewal process. They nourish both animals and humans. Ever since I was a child, my grandmother would give me a handful of seeds and take me into the garden and surrounding fields to help her plant them. These drawings are a tribute to those memories and to the beauty of nature that we must preserve. Birds, for instance, play a vital role in seed dispersal, transporting them from one part of the world to another and helping to regenerate forests and natural habitats. To create these artworks, I used sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, quinoa, rice, and buckwheat. They were arranged on the paper like a mosaic, without the use of glue.

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Viviana De Cecco is a writer, translator, and visual artist. She works as a content writer and book reviewer for Tint Journal and NewMyths. Her translations of twentieth-century poetry and short stories from Spanish, French and Italian have appeared in Azonal Translation, The Polyglot Magazine and Atèlier d’écriture. Her fiction and poetry have also appeared in Poets’ Choice, Aôthen Magazine, Seaside Gothic, Yuvoice.org, and others. As an artist, her visual art appeared in Mud Season Review, Acta Victoriana, Spellbinder Magazine, MayDay Magazine. Since 2013, she has published short stories, poems and novels of various genres.