Layers and Light

Integral to processes of science and art are tensions of entropy and order, predictability and surprise. This body of work is a series of eco-prints created with flowers from 'weeds' in unkempt parking spaces, rusty nails, known and documented dye plants, and not-yet-known-to-me botanicals … all potential sources of colour and alchemic magic. The eco-prints, when backlit, are reminiscent of layered lives, paper-thin memories, and dissolution of definition. These are the themes I want to continue exploring in this evolving project.

Bio
I am a professor of environmental learning and STEAM education at Rhodes University. I have many ‘other lives’ where I am re-discovering the meaning of learning through playful encounters where art and science meet, and which inspire my educational work. My photography, eco-printing, dyeing, and fabric art position me at the nexus of chemistry and art, ecology and art, technology and art, ..., enabling me to discover reconciliatory interdisciplinary spaces between these oft-oppositionalised fields.