Lucila Kenny

PLANT BEHAVIOUR

Acknowledging, observing and learning to understand what is around me provides meaning to this life
Everything what is here now exists, has energy and a reason to be
But we live in places we sometimes don't even know what is there

Mapping a place in my practice represents: the walks, encounters, observations, I try to create a bond with the place and feel part of it for a while. I observe the seasonal nature and it's natural growth and exchange
I learn by this connection
Using remains of natural material from the previous seasons to investigate and find those hidden colours and make ink would be a way of tracing the dialogues
between me and the plants. The inks are then used to draw my dream landscapes.

Maps from Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Berlin and Accra.

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HARVEST

Villa Buitenlust, Amsterdam - november 2020

How can we talk about the process of natural dyeing and harvesting colours without making it visible?

Can I imagine what colours feel like?

These nine maps (30 x 40cm) were made during my stay at Villa Buitenlust using ink from plants found around the area at this time of the year. Each map will hang on a different sleeping room of the house together with an invitation to an audio-meditative map which translates the atmosphere of living in this place and the actions involved in the process of harvesting those colours from the surrounding. This 8 min audio was recorded and edited together with Reinout Verbeek and is recommended to be listened to with headsets!

Link >

After a couple of days when the ink is made I drop it on papers and let the plants find their own way. This will change in time and I look forward to witnessing the appearance of new shades.

The results became dialogues between: plants, birds, wind, soil, sun and rain, water, fire, paper, music, myself and time.