Entangled Knowledge
Urban Ecology / English Grammar
In the winter of 2020 a few trees were removed from a public space next to Nova Scotia's Museum of Natural History. 27 species mosses, liverworts and lichens were collected from the trees and added to the Museum's epiphyte collection. Cookie samples taken from the trees date the trees to be nearly a century old. The data collected from this collection, is used to create the project Entangled Knowledge. Drawings of all 27 species are interwoven with the text on the leaves of a prescribed English Grammar book from 1921. Arranged in order the leaves create a larger drawing that attempts to illustrate the entanglement and interconnectivity of the species with the trees. The project merges the complexity and structure of an urban ecology with that of the complexity and structure of english grammar. Both book and trees act as placeholders for knowledge and memory of a place and time. |