August 1, 2026

August 1 belongs to the collection A Day of Flowers, the project in which Yuri Catania paints one flower a day, every day of the year, in a fixed format of 50 × 50 cm. Like the page of a visual diary, each work records a precise day: the mood, the place, the season and the hour enter the composition, the colour and the energy of the painting, which is never the same as the one before. In this painting of 1 August five sunflowers open on an ultramarine ground with a dense grain, almost like velvet. The yellow petals are drawn with nervous, repeated marks, like luminous scribbles, and the hearts, instead of the usual brown, are violet and lilac; one of the flowers, lower down, turns entirely magenta. The green stems converge at the bottom into a small bunch. It is a summery and at the same time unreal page, in which the sunniest of flowers changes colour in the night. The A Day of Flowers project was born on 29 August 2025 in Honfleur, Normandy, during a road trip, inspired by a book by David Hockney on the iPad as a painting tool. From that first attempt in front of a tree, at a campsite, a daily pact was born: one flower a day as the smallest unit of cultivated beauty. Each work is painted digitally, then printed on cotton paper in its original format and framed by hand by the artist, so that the digital returns to the physical body of the work, regaining substance, edge and shadow. A Day of Flowers is a meditation on time: not abstract time, but time lived and measured in gestures. Painted digitally with Procreate on iPad; printed as a unique work.