Tomato Plants et al  
Human: Stephanie Pau

 
↘ Praxis  
 ≈ un-readymades
 ≈ hearing plastics out 
 ≈ attuning with tomato plants
 ≈ petroleum-free printmaking
 
↘ Residency
 ∫ AGA Lab (Netherlands)
 ∫ PADA Studios (Portugal)
 ∫ R-Urban Poplar (2025)
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Praxis: attunement with tomato plants

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2021  - ongoing | A series of drypoints | Unframed dimensions:  max  20cm width 


Reclaimed drink cartons (tetrapak), acid-free paper, printmaking ink. 

In 2020, like many people, I started growing tomato plants inside city dwellings. I started eating "in-season" with my tomato plants - I ate food to generate suitable waste, such as egg shells and yoghurt pots, for seeding and repotting growing tomato plants; replacing the start-of-a-work-day-rituals of the bruising commute with the daily watering and admiring of tomato plants; collecting tens of moments of tomato plants’ gestures as artwork - through “junkyard printmaking”*. Practising with tomato plants, not as crops or subjects but as partners, has developed into habits of noticing and caring for, and with(?), the non-human. 
* Junkyard Printmaking is a short-hand name for intaglio/collograph printmaking using waste materials for image making, using no specialised equipment, not even a press, and no hazardous chemicals in the process. 

Revision 2 of the writing, first written and published at Mediamatic (NL) as part of a project proposal: Time Givers, by Tomato Plants et al . 





Decay


2023 | Assemblage


Ink, art catalogue from 1999 and reclaimed wood.