Tag: Botanical Imaginations
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Recrafting the Brazilian Arboreal Archive
in ExhibitsRecords of Tree Day ceremonies in Brazil’s public archives belie a mass felling of native trees over the twentieth century. Combining archival photographs with poetic text, the duo Paisagens Móveis re-craft the archive’s narrative through artwork: Cidade-Jardem, or Garden City.
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The Art of Arctic Plants: A Conversation with Zachari Logan
Zachari Logan has built a career on drawing plants. In this interview, Isabelle Gapp talks with him about his residency at Kinngait Studios, where carpets of plants “erupt” across the tundra.
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Tuberous Entanglements and the Potato Empire
in EssaysTatsiana Shchurko follows potatoes through personal memories and uneven global histories. From the Andes to Belarus, she traces how the potato mediates imperial power while fueling peasant resistance and sustaining everyday life.
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Contaminated Art on the Plastic Archipelago
in ExhibitsOn the metropolitan archipelago of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, where plastic intermingles with organic matter, mixed media artist Alex Côté Hallé creates art that intertwines the urban, the fluvial, and the queer.
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Winter’s Muted Garden
What does a garden become in winter? Émilie Gervais explores winter’s sensory and narrative landscape through a community garden’s fence.
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The Colonial Roots of Catholic Plants
in EssaysCatholic churches in the U.S. are decorated with a shared, recurring cycle of select plants. Rebecca Laurent and Emily Burke dig into the historical and political roots of poinsettias and Easter lilies and what their floral glory tells us about nature, religion, and colonialism.
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A Multispecies Approach to Learning from Invasive Plants
in EssaysIn the thick of Greenbelt National Park, students in Jordan Lea Johnson’s feminist environmental studies class learn from invasive plants. A multispecies pedagogy prompts reflection on ecological narratives of invasion and mastery.
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Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities
in ChecklistsReady to get plant-y? In anticipation of our forthcoming special series, Academic faculty recommend books with botanical imaginations to transform yours.