Vegetal Encounters
2018-
Multi-year artist residency with the UBC Outdoor Art Program, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Through this residency, I am creatively engaging with plant life as a significant source of life, connection and learning. Learning with plant life involves slowing down and using all of the senses to engage deeply and with respect. This involves developing opportunities for students, staff and faculty on campus to attend to the plants around them. This engagement will result in a range of art projects in various mediums and of different durations.
To launch the residency, I presented Forecast, a series of daily weather forecasts installed on the windows of the AHVA Gallery over the course of Congress 2019. Printed on vinyl with a mirror finish, the text reflects the shifting weather conditions outside the gallery. Rather than predicting the weather, the forecasts use the language of weather reporting to anticipate the highly localized effects of weather on humans, plants and animals on campus.
This will be the first of many poetic weather forecasts broadcast on the website – vegetalencounters.ca
Photo Credit: Nigel Laing