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, with many ‘other lives’ in which I re-discover learning through playful, material encounters where art and science meet. My photography, eco-printing, dyeing, and fabric work emerge from hands-on engagement with fibres, pigments, and processes, exploring relationships between chemistry and art, ecology and art, and technology and making. These practices inform my educational work and allow me to inhabit generative spaces between disciplines that are often treated as separate.