-genous

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adj combining form

This artwork is made using a repurposed canvas and illustrations from old damaged Botany books, books that are now rendered obsolete because the content and perhaps format are no longer viable, books that were once trees; that have passed through the hands of an eager student, ripped and creased, collecting dust on a bookshelf; then ended its life as landfill…or not, in my case.

As I was creating this artwork the words “all” and “genous” stood out to me as I found it quite significant to the work that I was producing; the images of how plants function and reproduce and the ultimate production of another reality that the mind can produce.

Our brain is wired to make sense of what we see and it will begin to take short cuts when it sees a pattern. Are there two baboons driving a car in the image? Or is that plant reproduction? All I know is that these are the Botany lessons I should have taken.