LISTENING TO PLANTS

Recently landed: Listening to plants

Over the summer, a deck of Salvaged Relatives has been growing on the drawing board. They have been created especially for a group exhibition, Plant Life, which blooms to open this Saturday, should you not, nor they neither, have wilted in the forecast heat.

Revisiting the costume department, this time of the leaf and petal variety, continued to prove an enjoyable exercise, and was perfect for the peculiar-shaped pockets of time between festivities (from giddy 80th Birthdays to pre Bat Rescue Bayside crèche preparations). The languorous pace of days were calendar dates drop from view was ideal to meet a new troop of Salvaged Relatives and pick up loose threads, in the spirit of The Company You Keep and Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian Birds. For cabinet card characters to forgo Ballet Russes history for a far older slice still as they turned slowly into plants.

Leaf by leaf, there she goes. Glued, pressed, penciled, painted, and potted as well. Sometimes, coming back to an earlier theme, but with a different forest of ideas and understanding, is the required tonic, as a Saffron Crocus (Crocus sativus) looms overhead.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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23rd of January, 2026

Salvaged Relative listening to Chicory (Cichorium intybus) and White Rose of York (Rosa alba) on Queen Street and Salvaged Relative listening to Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) and White Rose of York (Rosa alba)