(Sol searching)
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 .