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Park Reserve (2023)

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Chlorophyll Print with living grass  (Perennial Ryegrass + Creeping Red Fescue), Microgreens (Red Amaranth, Red Radish, Parsely, Sorrel, Mustard), Stoneware Clay on stretched burlap, Smart Irrigation device, Water drum. Image developed on seeded canvas via projection in artist’s bedroom for approximately 6 days

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Dimension of canvas - 120cm x 180cm

Dimension of installation variable

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Exhibited at Starch, as part of ‘Leave Nothing But Footprints - A Landscape Exhbition’

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Working with grass as a photographic medium, Park Reserve is a cumulation of Rusydan’s interest in underutilised spaces as territories of vast potential. It brings to question what could be or what counts as a biological reserve in an urban city, particularly in older residential estates. Interspersed with micro-edible greens along the periphery, a barren carpark rooftop next to the artist’s home has been envisioned as not just a green space, but more so as a food common and a biophilic sandbox. With the work automatically misted throughout the course of the exhibition using a simple irrigation device, Rusydan factors into this ecosystem the gestures of plant care while speculating on how technology and cultivation could be integrated in this fast-paced and tropical environment.

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