Trace

PrizeShortlist in Shoot (photo/video)
ArtistIngrid Schudel
CategoryNon-Professional
CreditIngrid Schudel

In life, procreation, and departure an unremitting presence pervades. Trace is inspired by the ephemeral world of insects - their dormancies, their secretiveness, and their cyclic ever-being. I am awed by how the reflective play in this set of photographs offers admittance to the spiritual ember that persists beyond their passing.

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.