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Sensing and Presencing Rare Plants through Contemporary Drawing Practice
- Source: Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, Volume 5, Issue 1, Apr 2020, p. 139 - 146
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- 01 Apr 2020
Abstract
Navigating through three distinct sites of knowledge – the seventeenth-century treatise on Malabar’s plants, Hortus Malabaricus; historical herbaria; and protected areas of remote forests and coastal regions of Kerala – the project will stimulate innovative modes of drawing through considerations relating to the collection and preservation of rare plants. Generating a distinctive body of artworks at world-leading plant science research facilities and in the bio-diverse South Indian rainforest, the research asks: can drawing represent the vulnerabilities and resilience of rare plants, not through illustration and gathering information by creating marks on a substrate, but as a material phenomenon that can generate new knowledge?