NO TITLE FOUNDNO TITLE FOUND. Issue 1 (1st April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bowen, Siân
• Is Part Of: Drawing. Volume 5:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 139
• Page End: 146
• Publication Date: 2020-04-01
• Subjects: Drawing -- Periodicals; 741.05
• DOI: 10.1386/drtp_00027_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-0392

Abstract

Navigating through three distinct sites of knowledge – the seventeenth-century treatise on Malabar's plants, Hortus Malabaricus; historical herbaria; and protected areas of remote forests and coastal regions of Kerala – the project will stimulate innovative modes of drawing through considerations relating to the collection and preservation of rare plants. Generating a distinctive body of artworks at world-leading plant science research facilities and in the bio-diverse South Indian rainforest, the research asks: can drawing represent the vulnerabilities and resilience of rare plants, not through illustration and gathering information by creating marks on a substrate, but as a material phenomenon that can generate new knowledge?