by Susan Brisco | Apr 2, 2024 | Art Film |
52 Playing cards in 52 weeks – artist statement Susan Brisco It’s always a delight to watch the ever-changing forms of nature quietly appearing and slowly growing throughout the seasons. My work presented was inspired from observations and drawings made during...
by Susan Brisco | Mar 28, 2024 | Art Film |
Plants in Bloom: A reading list mapping the geographies of kinship in researching, making and understanding Plants as Ink, their unique patterns and blooms. . . Reference Readings in a timeline Fieldwork BSBI Code of Conduct 2017 (bsbi.org) The Code sets out best...
by Susan Brisco | Mar 5, 2024 | Art Film |
The more I research into the positive feelings of wellbeing when we are bathed in green spaces, the more I read about oxytocin, our human magic hormone… and it all happens via our visual and non-visual pathway in the brain! Oxytocin has many functions –...
by Susan Brisco | Jan 20, 2024 | Art Film, Art Science, Drawing, Science |
Inventory of inks (Feb – Dec) To date, I have foraged, harvested and made 34 botanical inks throughout the season. This number has quite surprised me! Each ink brings back a memory of a walk, a place, an experience and a story. For example, one day, a walk in Wales...
by Susan Brisco | Jan 3, 2024 | Art Film |
Conversations with Plants as ink🌱: Seaweed sargassum (brown macroalgae) I spend a lot of time by the seaside, walking along the beach and see so much seaweed washed up ! To explore a different ecosystem, I decided to make botanical seaweed ink using...
by Susan Brisco | Jan 3, 2024 | Art Film |
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe was an influential German poet, scientist and philosopher. In 1790 he wrote The Metamorphosis of Plants which he described in a letter to a friend as the ‘truth about the how of an organism’. Goethe went on to write...
