Plants Out of Place
Artist creator: Sarah Nicholls
Categories: Bookwork / Letterpress Books, Zines/Chapbooks
Reference no.:Z/NL/Nic.S/19.00 Place/Shelf:Zine Box 2
| Book title: | Plants Out of Place |
| Published by: | Brain Washing from Phone Towers |
| Year made: | 2019 |
| Place made: | USA |
| Original: | Yes |
| Dimensions: | 120 x 225 |
| Binder: | bound by S Nicholls |
| Physical description: | stitched pamphlet |
| Medium: | text, illustrations |
| Further information: | |
| "Two years ago I saw an exhibition at Parsons by the Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves. In the center of the gallery were small black bags filled with plants, all species classified as urban weeds. They were all examples of plants that came to New York as seeds buried amongst the ballast of shipping vessels, then dumped along the shoreline. Ballast is one of the ways humans have reconfigured the earth's biome, shuffling species at will. Alves is interested in ballast flora as a living record of colonization, the transatlantic slave trade, and the economic system that the port of New York was built on." (Sarah Nicholls from 'Plants Out of Place'.) | |
| Artist creator: | Sarah Nicholls () |
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