Very slowly things come together at times. This is one of those times. It’s never nice getting ill when one is planning to work within a limited timeframe but that’s what happened. I’m still coughing during the day though I wonder if I am developing allergies at this stage in my life. The pollen has been bad but I’m not sure that’s the answer. Today is much better even though it didn’t fully rain as forecast.
Although I do use Instagram (where these have been posted) I wanted to share them here as well. Lately I have come across a few ideas that I have been playing with for a number of years and have to some extent incorporated the notion of ethnobotany into my art practice. Urban foraging seems to be a “thing” in Berkeley, Calif. where it was recently featured in a NY Times article. Well, living in San Francisco myself, I had focused some research into herbal and medicinal plants, so Berkeley seems a good place for foraging to be noted. My image examples below are from Ohio and Minnesota.
While in Minneapolis a few days I visited both the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Both were exceptional.
