Spread Tenderly and Exactly by Nicole Sara Simpkins
Spread Tenderly and Exactly (Spotted Knapweed, Queen Anne’s lace and Buckthorn)
Cyanotype, etching, chine colle and ink drawing
About the artist:
“My work uses printmaking, writing, and drawing to explore entanglements of culture, ecosystems, and personal healing. So-called “invasive” plants are my central metaphor and my abiding curiosity. I carve botanically accurate linoleum prints of specific plant species: tansy and mullein, bittersweet and buckthorn. I combine these prints with salvaged textiles to construct large-scale installations of cut and stitched layers that invoke complex entanglements of resurgent plants and tumultuous extraction. With intricate hand-stitching, webbing, knotting and joining, I am engaged in a ritual of mending. In my research, I trace the historical context for this categorization of plant behavior, with its curious binarization of native vs invader. I take note of which plants are abundant across regions of the US and abroad, and I observe their growth patterns, the ecological conditions that they respond to, and the stories people tell about this.”
Read more : http://www.nicolesarasimpkins.com/statement-info
Spread Tenderly and Exactly (Spotted Knapweed, Queen Anne’s lace and Buckthorn)
Cyanotype, etching, chine colle and ink drawing
About the artist:
“My work uses printmaking, writing, and drawing to explore entanglements of culture, ecosystems, and personal healing. So-called “invasive” plants are my central metaphor and my abiding curiosity. I carve botanically accurate linoleum prints of specific plant species: tansy and mullein, bittersweet and buckthorn. I combine these prints with salvaged textiles to construct large-scale installations of cut and stitched layers that invoke complex entanglements of resurgent plants and tumultuous extraction. With intricate hand-stitching, webbing, knotting and joining, I am engaged in a ritual of mending. In my research, I trace the historical context for this categorization of plant behavior, with its curious binarization of native vs invader. I take note of which plants are abundant across regions of the US and abroad, and I observe their growth patterns, the ecological conditions that they respond to, and the stories people tell about this.”
Read more : http://www.nicolesarasimpkins.com/statement-info
Spread Tenderly and Exactly (Spotted Knapweed, Queen Anne’s lace and Buckthorn)
Cyanotype, etching, chine colle and ink drawing
About the artist:
“My work uses printmaking, writing, and drawing to explore entanglements of culture, ecosystems, and personal healing. So-called “invasive” plants are my central metaphor and my abiding curiosity. I carve botanically accurate linoleum prints of specific plant species: tansy and mullein, bittersweet and buckthorn. I combine these prints with salvaged textiles to construct large-scale installations of cut and stitched layers that invoke complex entanglements of resurgent plants and tumultuous extraction. With intricate hand-stitching, webbing, knotting and joining, I am engaged in a ritual of mending. In my research, I trace the historical context for this categorization of plant behavior, with its curious binarization of native vs invader. I take note of which plants are abundant across regions of the US and abroad, and I observe their growth patterns, the ecological conditions that they respond to, and the stories people tell about this.”
Read more : http://www.nicolesarasimpkins.com/statement-info
