Soil Memory, Seed Song: The Pollinator Gardens Of Finding Flowers
Esse, Feb 8 winter, 2024, no. 110, pp. 44-49
Finding Flowers, dives into the topic of decolonizing language in terms of gardening. Using a group of artists to restore Mike MacDonald's pollinator gardens and construct newfound gardens, while teaching important practices involving Indigenous sovereignty. Through this ecological rehabilitation, Finding Flowers creates consciousness with land. Providing awareness of the animated relationship, between people and land. With this endeavor, they have successfully populated local pollinators. Research on soil toxicity, healing through gardening are also reflected in terms of generational/cultural healing.
ITEM 2024.033 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Planting One Another, vue d’installation – Lisa Myers
Finding Flowers – Lisa Myers
Gendering Earth: Excavating Plantation Soil – Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
Gardening against the Apocalypse: The Case of document – T. J. Demos
Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology – T. J. Demos
Learning the Grammar of Animacy – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Thinking with Soils: An Introduction – Juan Francisco Salazar
Finding Flowers – Dana Prieto
Finding Flowers – Tania Willard
Finding Flowers – Laura Grier
Finding Flowers – Sheila Colla
Medecine and Butterfly Garden – Mike MacDonald
Édouard Glissant