What if Wine
Was a Woman
Every great wine has a personality.
What if that personality had a face?
A fine art project that gives wines a human identity. Each portrait is developed in close conversation with the wine it represents. The result is a body of work that wine lovers recognise immediately, even when they cannot explain exactly why.
The collection has been shown as a full exhibition experience, with large-format installations and a live blind-tasting element. Visitors received a glass without knowing the wine, and were invited to find its portrait in the collection. The match rate was remarkable. The conversations it started were better still.
New work added regularly
From wine to woman: a new kind of portrait
The wine is poured and tasted slowly. More than once. Grape variety, terroir, climate, vintage, the history of the house — every element is absorbed before a single image is made. The bottle stays open while the work begins.
Each element is translated into mood, texture, colour and association. Physical objects, fabric swatches, words, fragments of memory. A moodboard takes shape: the DNA of the woman she will become. This is her personality, before she has a face.
Layer by layer the portrait takes shape. Her bearing, her gaze, the light that falls on her — everything traces back to what was in the glass. Until the moment it is right. She may exist. She is.
The full collection lives at its own home
WiWwaW is available for exhibition, collector acquisition and wine house collaboration. The complete collection, the process and all inquiries are at wiwwaw.com.
Fine Art Baryta print, mounted with TruLife acrylic · Available in three formats · Strictly limited editions of 7, 14 and 24
Flora
Incognita
Plants that have never existed. Discovered not in a rainforest, but in the deeper territories of imagination.
An ongoing series of impossible botanical specimens. Each carries a Latin name rooted in real taxonomic tradition, extended into pure fantasy with the suffix phantasia. A small signal that this is science of a different order.
Rendered with the precision of classical botanical illustration, but following rules no field guide has ever written down. New specimens surface when they are ready.
Femmes
en Fleurs
A woman belongs to the flower that holds her.
There is a moment in certain dreams when the boundary between the person and the place dissolves. You are no longer standing in the garden. You are the garden. Femmes en Fleurs begins in that moment and does not look away.
An ever-growing collection in which women and blooms become one. Each subseries explores a different flower, a different mood. Always the same quiet surrender to the imagination.
