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[https://www.amazon.de/Wurzelatlas-mitteleuropäischer-Ackerunkräuter-Kulturpflanzen-Wurzelatlas-Reihe/dp/3769007581 Wurzelatlas]<br> | [https://www.amazon.de/Wurzelatlas-mitteleuropäischer-Ackerunkräuter-Kulturpflanzen-Wurzelatlas-Reihe/dp/3769007581 Wurzelatlas]<br> | ||
[http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38727/title/Plant-Talk/ The Social life of Plants]<br> | [http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38727/title/Plant-Talk/ The Social life of Plants]<br> | ||
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard] <br> | |||
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23597544-landmarks?ac=1&from_search=true Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane]<br> | |||
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1344371.Wildwood?ac=1&from_search=true Wildwood by Robert Deakin]<br> | |||
===Amongst the Trees=== | ===Amongst the Trees=== | ||
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[[File:tree1.png|200px]] [[File:tree2.png|200px]] [[File:tree3.png|200px]] | [[File:tree1.png|200px]] [[File:tree2.png|200px]] [[File:tree3.png|200px]] | ||
===Growing Plants=== | ===Growing Plants=== | ||
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During the time span of a week one group of seeds was constantly listening to the album 'Plantasia - Music or plants and the people who love them'. The other group of seeds didn't hear anything. In the end it seemed that 'Plantasia' is only aimed at the people who love plants, because the plants itself did perform worse than the reference group<br> | During the time span of a week one group of seeds was constantly listening to the album 'Plantasia - Music or plants and the people who love them'. The other group of seeds didn't hear anything. In the end it seemed that 'Plantasia' is only aimed at the people who love plants, because the plants itself did perform worse than the reference group<br> | ||
[[File:P1080763.JPG|300px]] [[File:P1080770.JPG|300px]] | [[File:P1080763.JPG|300px]] [[File:P1080770.JPG|300px]] | ||
Here are some recordings of the growth experiments<br> | |||
[https://vimeo.com/247145949 Growth of Cat grass from seed]<br> | |||
[https://vimeo.com/250266700 Plant reacting to light]<br> | |||
===Drawing Plant Growth=== | ===Drawing Plant Growth=== | ||
Having done the previous experiments resulted in me wanting to understand the movements the plants make with their roots. They look so funny and clumsy how they use them to stretch the seeds out into the light. So I made some observation drawings. | Having done the previous experiments resulted in me wanting to understand the movements the plants make with their roots. They look so funny and clumsy how they use them to stretch the seeds out into the light. So I made some observation drawings.<br> | ||
[[File:differentSeedShapes.jpg|900px]]<br><br> | [[File:differentSeedShapes.jpg|900px]]<br><br> | ||
And then I followed one seed from the moment it started to germinate | And then I followed one seed from the moment it started to germinate <br> | ||
[[File:singlePLantGrowth.jpg|900px]]<br> | [[File:singlePLantGrowth.jpg|900px]]<br> | ||
More and more I start to question myself what the relationship is between humans and the plants. how can I justify myself portraying human characteristics on them? And Why do people feel more empathie for things that move than for static things (animal vs. plants but also moving plants like the Mimosa vs. non moving ones). | More and more I start to question myself what the relationship is between humans and the plants. how can I justify myself portraying human characteristics on them? And Why do people feel more empathie for things that move than for static things (animal vs. plants but also moving plants like the Mimosa vs. non moving ones). | ||
when does this feeling of empathie arrises? | when does this feeling of empathie arrises? | ||
===Changing Surroundings=== | |||
After asking myself what this relation between humans and plants (/natural surroundings) is, I realised that I should look at it from the opposite perspective, from the human perspective. Previous works of mine have all dealt with this question of how can we perceive our surroundings and how can we/ do we perceive it differently? It was then that I stumpled upon this phenomenon, our daily vocabulary to describe our surroundings are chaging. | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/13/oxford-junior-dictionary-replacement-natural-words Oxford Junior Dictionary replacement Natural Words]<br> | |||
If there are no more words for certain characteristics in the landscape, do we still observe them? Or do we tend to see more clearly things we know, are conscious off? | |||
So I first started to mark all the words in the dictionary that got removed, and also the ones that were newly added as their replacements. <br><br> | |||
[[File:foto 1_w.JPG|300px]] [[File:foto 2.JPG|300px]] [[File:foto 4.JPG|300px]] <br><br> | |||
''Holly'' & ''Fungus'' had to move because ''Drought'' was newly added | |||
''Panther'' & ''Lavender'' had to move because ''Endangered'' was newly added | |||
''Willow'' & ''Violet'' had to move because ''Vandal'' was newly added | |||
''Lobster'' & ''Hamster'' had to move because ''Chatroom'' was newly added | |||
It shows pretty poeticly how society is changing. | |||
Then I started to collect to objects to make a collage in the basement of M5 <br> | |||
[[File:foto 2_b.JPG|300px]] [[File:foto 5.JPG|500px]] |
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