Tomato Plants et al - human: Stephanie Pau!! update in progress, usable but not fully formatted
-- Praxis: attuning with tomato plants --

(Sol searching)


Drypoints
on acid-free paper
using waste material (drink cartons)  

Unframed dimensions: various, max 20cm wide

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 . 


2021 - ongoing




Decay 

Assemblage

80 x 130 cm approx
Ink, pages from an art catalogue from 1999, used scaffolding board and new dowel. 
Decay is a complex image - a collage of a portrait of a decaying tomato plant, framed in an eclectic but not accidental collection of warped and neat wood.

2023


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