Cultivar Project 29.06.19 – 16.07.19 // Museum of The Flat Earth, Fogo Island

Cultivar Project 29.06.19 – 16.07.19 // Museum of The Flat Earth, Fogo Island

Having missed the opportunity to work and walk with Amy Ash last year in 2018, due to hostile environment of UK (see floral pilgrimage post) we secured a residency together on Fogo Island, an area in between the coasts we both currently look out from.

Our plan was to draw from physical exploration of the Islands flora and the metaphorical implications of botanical terminology, to explore botanical and cultural hybridization to connect political displacement, communities and nature using Amy’s experience of a hostile environment with new possibilities for future growth as a starting point.

From our base at the former Museum of the Flat Earth we got to work on the Island - card reading, dining at Cod-jigger, blackfly biting coastal exploration, workshop plotting and cyanotyping of our hybridised species:

Haverthorn V.4.1 // Magasine collaboration, Spring 2018 with Camilla Nelson

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Camilla Nelson

Haverthorn magazine is a literary magasine edited by Iris Colomb and Andrew Wells. Each magasine has a section that teams artists with poets in collaborations. I had the pleasure of responding to Camilla Nelson's existing work "Magnolia" and she created "Scorn Dolly" as inspired by my work "Closing the borders opened the gates of hell" photographed by Sebastian Trustman.

In order to get closer to Camilla Nelson's poem which seemed to me to express a harrowing and fragmented desire of something you do not really want, I worked with my flatmate to explore our fears concerning (although not necessarily related to) our desires for the future. The outcome involved envisaging a landscape surrounding the female form with abstract floral shapes of future pressures built from: self, society, family.