The Unearthings
A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
Inspired by the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, ‘teaching the names of plants and ignoring their songs’, giving emphasis back to the plants themselves by avoiding orders of scientific identification - systematising the plant world in order to name, to classify, to take DNA as a way of knowing and controlling all that needs to be known. Delving into a broader, deeper understanding of plants as physical elements of our shared ecosystem. Listening to their ‘songs’. Savouring the strength, courage and migratory journey of the self-seeded. Exploring the 500 year old archive practice of the herbarium as an opportunity to gather, press, dry and collate plants, when removed or expired as a way of remembering their presence, their sounds, their aroma, their touch, their colours and their dependant fauna.