(Detail of peanut tree seedpod )
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What are the ‘signs’ in the landscape?
What smells, sounds or sights keep us present, signalling the time of day, the season, a moment in an ecological cycle or our interconnection? Drawing our attention to the thresholds of time and place, HERE + NOW asks through what lens do you see the significant pointers in our landscape?
The work is a whacky blend of pop botanica, “utopia” and phenomena; highlighting the authority of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, the democratisation of science through agency, and the significance of the relationship between community and ecology with the goal to highlight nature’s equity that nurtures all.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
Artwork created in conversation since 2018 with Mbabaram Traditional Custodian and Senior Ethnobotanist, Gerry Turpin from the Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University.
To the Jagera and Turrbul Peoples of Brisbane City, and all Traditional Owners across Australia and the Torres Strait whose authority of Traditional Ecological Knowledge is paramount, I offer you my deepest respect.
Title inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Island-1962.
Share your observations on local botanical signs and contribute to a growing citizen science project.
What can smells, sounds or sights in the bontanical landscape tell us about the time of day, the season, or a moment in an ecological cycle? For thousands of years Indigenous calendar plants have been used to signify oncoming seasons through bloomings, migration or fecund indicators in the landscape. This study of nature’s calendar in western science is know as phenology. Share your observations on local botanical indicators and contribute to a growing citizen science project.
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Bamboo, pink LED neon, hose clamps
What are the ‘signs’ in the landscape?
What smells, sounds or sights keep us present, signalling the time of day, the season, a moment in an ecological cycle or our interconnection? Drawing our attention to the thresholds of time and place, HERE + NOW asks through what lens do you see the significant pointers in our landscape?
The work is a whacky blend of pop botanica, “utopia” and phenomena; highlighting the authority of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, the democratisation of science through agency, and the significance of the relationship between community and ecology with the goal to highlight nature’s equity that nurtures all.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Artwork created in conversation since 2018 with Mbabaram Traditional Custodian and Senior Ethnobotanist, Gerry Turpin from the Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University.
To the Jagera and Turrbul Peoples of Brisbane City, and all Traditional Owners across Australia and the Torres Strait whose authority of Traditional Ecological Knowledge is paramount, I offer you my deepest respect.
Title inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Island-1962.
Bamboo, pink LED neon, hose clamps
What are the ‘signs’ in the landscape?
What smells, sounds or sights keep us present, signalling the time of day, the season, a moment in an ecological cycle or our interconnection? Drawing our attention to the thresholds of time and place, Here + Now asks through what lens do you see the significant pointers in our landscape?
The work is a whacky blend of pop botanica, “utopia” and phenomena; highlighting the authority of Indigenous ecological Knowledge, the democratisation of science through agency, and the significance of the relationship between community and ecology with the goal to highlight nature’s equity that nurtures all.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Artwork created in conversation since 2018 with Mbabaram Traditional Custodian and Senior Ethnobotanist, Gerry Turpin from the Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University.
To the Jagera and Turrbul Peoples of Brisbane City, and all Traditional Owners across Australia and the Torres Strait whose authority of Traditional Ecological Knowledge is paramount, I offer you my deepest respect.
Title inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Island-1962.
Bamboo, pink LED neon, hose clamps
What are the ‘signs’ in the landscape?
What smells, sounds or sights keep us present, signalling the time of day, the season, a moment in an ecological cycle or our interconnection? Drawing our attention to the thresholds of time and place, Here + Now asks through what lens do you see the significant pointers in our landscape?
The work is a whacky blend of pop botanica, “utopia” and phenomena; highlighting the authority of Indigenous ecological Knowledge, the democratisation of science through agency, and the significance of the relationship between community and ecology with the goal to highlight nature’s equity that nurtures all.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
Artwork created in conversation since 2018 with Mbabaram Traditional Custodian and Senior Ethnobotanist, Gerry Turpin from the Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University.
To the Jagera and Turrbul Peoples of Brisbane City, and all Traditional Owners across Australia and the Torres Strait whose authority of Traditional Ecological Knowledge is paramount, I offer you my deepest respect.
Title inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Island-1962.
Photograph by Jennifer Tunny