Seeds for Unpredictable Patterns, 2021. Mixed media on cyanotype and silkscreen print, 23’ x 26’ with frame. Photography by Jenna Garrett and the Minnesota Street Project.
Seeds for Corn Moons, 2021. Mixed media on cyanotype and silkscreen print, 23’ x 26’ with frame. Photography by Jenna Garrett and the Minnesota Street Project.
Seeds for Quiet Time, 2021. Mixed media on cyanotype and silkscreen print, 23’ x 26’ with frame. Photography by Jenna Garrett and the Minnesota Street Project.
Seeds for Cosmic Unions, 2021. Mixed media on cyanotype and silkscreen print, 23’ x 26’ with frame. Photography by Jenna Garrett and the Minnesota Street Project.
Seeds for Secret Gardens (left side of image), 2021. Mixed media on cyanotype and silkscreen print, 23’ x 26’ with frame. Photography by Jenna Garrett and the Minnesota Street Project.
A series of five mixed-media printed and collaged cyanotype 'exposures' (in the photographic sense) of speculative seed germination sequences. Originally made for my solo exhibition new yamfish seed exchange (nyse).
Hidden (or partially visible) in each is an image of my grandfather climbing up into his 'secret garden' in my father's family's home in tropical southern China, where he has been cultivating a lush rooftop garden since 1985. Over the past several years, he has become too old and frail to tend to it, so it has been left unattended, to either wither or erupt into wild and unpredictable growth. These prints reflect on the secret lives of those near and dear to us, and to the 'worlds within worlds' encapsulated in a seed, as well as the connection that the discovery of a family member's garden can forge.