Alternative
Botanicals
Vadodara, India
2016-2017
The Alternative Botanicals series address alternative
knowledge sources, that create ruptures in scientific fact are often left out
of its discourse. Looking to myths, origins and obscure traces as ‘systems’ of
information, the works appropriate (both visually and through process) the
aesthetic and format of botanical specimens collected and described, but with
visual and textual information that straddles mythology and poetics, instead of
science – toying with ideas of understanding, beliefs and fact.
Wrightia Tinctoria
Cyanotype on stretched cotton fabric
4ft x 4ft
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Alianthus Excelsa
Cyanotype on stretched cotton fabric
4ft x 4ft
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Spathodea Camapnulata
Cyanotype on stretched cotton fabric
4ft x 4ft
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Bombax Ceiba
Ink on on stretched cotton fabric
4ft x 4ft
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We stand outside of science
Ink, graphite and oil pastel on stretched and primed cotton fabric
8ft x 8ft
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Barringtonia
Toned cyanotypes on paper
Mumbai and Vadodara, India
2017
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Loranthus
Toned cyanotypes on paper
Mumbai and Vadodara, India
2017