Rhoda Ting & Mikkel Bojesen
Landscape Portrait #18, 2020
epoxy, pigment, crystals from Lake Crosbie, Victoria, flora and fungi foraged in summer, Victoria, Australia
90 x 70 x 3 cm
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The Landscape Portrait series pauses on the process of encounters, decay and intra-action in the meeting between biology and industry, organic and synthetic. Rather than a striving for an unattainable...
The Landscape Portrait series pauses on the process of encounters, decay and intra-action in the meeting between biology and industry, organic and synthetic. Rather than a striving for an unattainable nostalgic purity and an essentialist notion of ‘Natural’ ‘Nature’, curiosity is located in a collective speculative future of relationality, co-creation and co-evolution. Each work combines locally foraged species such as fungi, lichens, moss and flora presenting a collection that blends wild and feral, cultivated and agriculture exploring biodiversity from a perspective that includes humans and human industry. The mixture of differing levels of water content and fibrous strength of matter reacts with the epoxy resin resulting in white fluid markings and natural pigmentation. Bubbles are created in a exothermic chemical reaction between synthetic and organic, revealing a tipping point. In this series the artist becomes a facilitator of a process that nature and industry become the painter.
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