Green Face Group

GFG is an artist group. Clare Milledge and Morten Milledge-Grayburn. We like to work with everything around us as materials.

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Some drawings we made.

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WFH and the artist’s garden

Today GFG went to art school at UNSW in Paddington. We took liquid spray soap in an old spray bottle we mixed ourselves from Dr Bronners soap and water and we also took isopropyl alcohol in an old spray bottle. We sprayed every handle on our way to the garden. It was weird but also fun. When Morten accidentally leaned on a railing we sprayed him and the railing. 

When we got to the garden we took a lot of seedlings that had sprung up, some older plants that there were lots of and we also took some parsley seed heads. 

We were amazed how much the rainforest garden had grown. Someone had left a Crow’s nest fern in a pot as a gift randomly in the garden. :) This happens a lot. We planted it.

We liked the idea that we were expanding the garden and we went home and put the seeds in old packets. We planted the seedlings and any spare leaves we put in bowls in the sun to dry so we could have dried herbs later.

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GFG made a new fungus friend.

Brot/brød

We mixed rye, wholewheat, plain flour and spelt. The wild yeast joined us by itself, we don’t know how far it had travelled. Another art group working with bread is  http://www.flatbreadsociety.net/ they say (about grains):

“We don’t need a museum for conserving varieties, what we want is to grow them.“

and anthropologist Michael Taussig says: 

“We can speak of these grains as a return or a re-tracing of a very ancient route combining human and non-human initiative by which wheat was domesticated from the wild and then slowly made its way through gifts, trade, winds, and sea currents, from the highly cultured Middle East to the barbarians of the north”— Seeds of Time, Michael Taussig 2016