It is a big size painting diptych depicting a detail of a human being’s face on a mise en abym meta-self-portrait, made using pigments obtained from different parts of, and through various processes by, the cashew fruits (apple and kernel).

The canvases hung on long bamboo poles are presented as a fence exposed to the flow of the day and the weather changing over time due to the natural colours and the effects of the sun, rain and pollution. The facial detail is a personal attempt to reproduce a familiar gesture of a loved one, initially portrait by De Marchi on black paper at a small scale, and later expanded on canvas in collaboration with the artist Dennis Ankamah Addo.

On the De Marchi’s request, Addo finished en plain air one of the paintings during the opening. The sun passing through the cashew’s oily colour, through the depicted pupil, turns it into gold.