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WIP Lion(ess) tattoo via /r/Illustration http://bit.ly/2Ixi1TO by designfidere

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Catalog Spread

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Food plant diversity - the key to life

Food plant diversity – the key to life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk-oC_yKrk4

Key points

In the last 100 years alone we have lost 75% of crop genetic variety and every six hours we loss a unique vegetable variety. We are depending on more and more of our food on fewer crops. What if something happened to the crops we depend so much on? There are over 20,000 varieties of corn in Mexico. Monoculture – the agricultural practice of…

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During a tutorial with Clinton Cahill, I discussed how I planned to combine nature with human sculptures to show how they are entwined and interdependent on one another. Clinton then suggested why didn’t make the sculptures out of nature, which brings me to the below experiment… I tried to make a hand out leaves, first making a skeleton with plaster of paris and then moulding the leaves around the hand via PVA and water. As you can see the leaves did not want to bend! And looking at these pictures I’m crying with laughter at trying to turn myself into a bloody tree. So although I have had some really helpful suggestions from other students on how you can fix the leaves in to shape, further research has led me to an idea which I feel is stronger for my practice.

  Leaf experiment During a tutorial with Clinton Cahill, I discussed how I planned to combine nature with human sculptures to show how they are entwined and interdependent on one another.

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Plant Blindness

Plant blindness is the official term coined by Wandersee and Schussler in 1998, “the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment, leading to the inability to recognize the importance of plants in the biosphere and in human affairs.” Plant blindness also comprises an “inability to appreciate the aesthetic and unique biological features” of plants and “the misguided,…

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Brain dump

Ethnobotany Structure Functional Climate

Prevent soil erosion

Food Vitamins

Food is the prime importance for plants

Air Water

Their presence is inevitable for clean air, food and water

Habitat Medicine Photosynthesis They are the starting point of all food chains Compared to animals, plants receive very little attention People barely notice plants

Plant Blindness

Plants contribute to our economy G…

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Initially, I decided to capture flowers and leaves in their natural form by using natural methods via photography, illustration, cyanotypes and this method; which was me pressing the leaves into wet clay to capture the intricate patterns and shapes. As you can imagine it’s quite difficult to take images of the clay as they’re delicate and quite soft patterns and all development images have been lost after posting my phone to Australia via the loo. But heres a few images to show the results!

This was a good experiment to play with what would happen, but for me the outcome as delicate and pretty in real life as they are, are not strong enough visually.

Rachel Dein, is a prime example of how pressing flowers can be done in a very beautiful successful way, with time and the right equipment. “Rachel Dein makes plaster casts of plants and flowers that record all their texture, pattern, and delicacy in exquisite details. Her composition can be as simple as a single stem or as complex as a field of wildflowers, leaves, and grasses. Pendulous bleeding hearts, curly fiddleheads of ferns, and wispy poppies are some of her favourite flowers to cast.”

Dein creates a framed clay square and arranges her plants and flowers on top, she presses them in to the clay leaving an imprint and then removes the flowers and plants. Leaving the clay to dry, she then fills the frame with plaster to capture the imprints. Once the plaster has dried, she removes the clay and the end results are beautiful! More examples of her work can be found online.

Pressing matter Initially, I decided to capture flowers and leaves in their natural form by using natural methods via photography, illustration, cyanotypes and this method; which was me pressing the leaves into wet clay to capture the intricate patterns and shapes.

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The area I think my exhibition will focus on is Ethnobotany, the relationship between plants and people. I find it fascinating how plants and humans are so interconnected, ‘Trees provide materials for houses; plants provide materials for clothes; and both animals and plants provide us with food. Life is supported by myriad of living things on Earth. The lives of those living things in turn are supported by other living things. Life on this planet is endlessly interconnected.’

Ethnobotany

noun

the scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious, and other uses.

References http://www.hungerfree.net/english/special/27_1.html

Ethnobotany The area I think my exhibition will focus on is Ethnobotany, the relationship between plants and people.