Performance-récolter-dessiner avec la Nature urbain comestible-recyclée / performance-harvesting-drawing with edible-recycled urban Nature (2011)

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Laiteron, comestible, considéré une mauvaise herbe, qui pousse dans les craques d'asphalt urbain, ici, elle est récupérée, avec la feuille d'érable, la fleur de monarda et les feuilles de plante médicinale agripaume (motherwort) - toutes des plantes productives et abondantes (des fois envahissantes). J'utilise le fusain (charbon de saule) pour tracer (dessiner) les contours d'abstraction créer par l'unique texture et traces que produisent les plantes.

Abundant edible yellow sow thistle (sonchus) grows in the cracks of sidewalks - nurtritional, considered a weed, it is recuperated, recycled, eating through absorption throuh the skin, with maple leaf, monarda flower, and motherwort leaves - all are plants that are productive, abundant and sometimes invasive. I used willow charcoal (fusain), to highlight the contours, with circular gestures, of marks, traces, textures expressed from the living plant matter.

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edible/medicinal plants: red Monarda flower petal, green Motherwort leaves, blue-violet Campanula flowers,
and non-edible: willow tree charcoal (fusain)

Rudbeckia triloba - brown-eyed susan - purple burgendy color is from the use of seed heads, filled with protein and nutrition (research to be done on their medicinal qualities, similar to echinacea), yellow is from the petals of the flower

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marigold petals and the multicolor transformation of one marigold (tagete) petal in one gestural movement

Each drawing is the result of the performance process between me, my finger tips squishing, pressing, touching, holding, a part of a plant, its’ leaf, seed, flower petal, whole flower, and the juice of its life, that flows out of it, into my skin, onto the paper. It is the moment just after harvest, just before it falls to the ground, into the soil, dying back into the earth, nourrishing the soil, or me. Yes eating with the skin of my fingertips, a plant at the end of its cycle of life, at the time of harvest.