"Paradisus terra" By Shkurte Ramushi

Here are just parts of my world, of the nature that I see every day on earth, which in fact is the happiness in earthly paradise. In art each one of us are able to have our own kingdom, and my kingdom in art is called the "Kingdom of Mushrooms". Kingdom of Mushrooms because the mushroom is a magnificent plant, together with an imaginary landscape of mushrooms, trees, stones along with symbolic colors of an afterlife, even microscopic. Also, nature is a kingdom.
 In my paintings the stones represent sustainability, trees - life, mushrooms - humanity and cactus - survival. These are the main symbols that remind us that in addition to heaven, paradise can easily be found under our feet, on earth. Meanwhile, different types of mushrooms as healing, nourishing and poisonous, can easily personify human characters. My paintings come as an artistic call to try with all our being to preserve and protect the nature of our planet.