Dispersal
2015
Dispersal Show Installation, Depot Gallery in Richmond, VA. 32” LED Screens, Eastern Red Cedar frames, 2015.
Using plants as a basis for exploration of the interstices between the human and nonhuman, Dispersal investigates ideas of awareness, intelligence, deep time, animism, and the fluctuating human perception of Nature. Knowing plants is a way to know the surrounding and global environment through the senses and seasons with a spirit of resilience, care, and empathy. Plants survive and evolve in this space and time alongside us, and we endlessly influence each other in a history that extends as far back as life itself.
Left: Touch-me-not/sensitive plant/shame plant/prayer plant/humble plant/Mimosa pudica, HD Video, 1:50 minute loop
Right: Norfolk Island Pine, HD video, 2:09 minute loop
Left: Instructions for Knowing a Pelargonium, HD Video, 6:24 minute loop
Right: Animal to Plant, Plant to Animal (Burdock), HD video, 4:00 minute loop
Dirt Time, Plant Thinking. Eastern red cedar, soil, found seeds, LCD monitor, media player, HD video, 5x3x4 ft.
Plants: Broadleaf dock, stinging nettle, common tansy, cocklebur, burdock, Queen Anne’s lace, milkweed, broomsedge, deertongue, Osage orange, and others.
Touch, Burn, Water: Mimosa pudica Polygraph Test (For Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and Cleve Backster), thermal paper, 8x23 in.
Gallery map and seed take-aways.
Contents of osage orange seed takeaway, includes a seed and instructions for germination. Also dispersed paw paw and American persimmon seed
Richmond Seedlings, dimensions variable, porcelain, soil, seedling:
OSAGE ORANGE (BELLE ISLE)
ONCE ENJOYED
BY GIANT
GROUND SLOTHS
AMERICAN PERSIMMON (TEXAS BEACH)
PEOPLE, POSSUMS, MOLDS,
DEER, YEASTS, RACCOONS
FIND THE FRUIT
DELICIOUS
GINKGO BILOBA (N. HARRISON STREET)
EXTANT TAXON—SOLE SURVIVOR
SAVE BY MONKS
SPREAD BY URBAN PLANNERS
AND GRAY SQUIRRELS
Video:
Instructions for Knowing a Pelargonium, HD Video, 6:24 min
Seeding Spirit. HD Video, 2:37 minutes
Touch-me-not/sensitive plant/shame plant/prayer plant/humble plant/Mimosa pudica. HD video, 1:50 minute loop
Norfolk Island Pine, HD video, 2:09 minute loop
Animal to Plant, Plant to Animal (Burdock), HD video, 4:00 minutes