holding resilience #4

Cyanotype on the back of old wallpaper - toned with Barley Grass

2022

21 x 29.7 cm

£125 unframed

Each cyanotype is a unique variation and includes marks from the wallpaper it is printed on, and hints of the wallpaper pattern behind.

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The plant I am holding is a Cow Parsley.

The Cow Parsley grew up through my interactive installation 'how did we become so resilient' - installed at Phytology: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve while I was in residency. The installation was an interspecies conversation that started with me weaving this question into the netting of a found plastic sack.

To install the work I cleared a patch of ivy – a resilient plant. The Cow Parsley replied, as did more ivy - more resilience.

I’ve been stuck on the word resilience since the beginning of the pandemic. How much resilience do we have in the face of our personal and collective traumas? Is all this resilience a good thing?

This cyanotype is printed on discarded wallpaper - and a hint of its original pattern can be seen, echoing the grid of the original installation.