if protest requires sensitivity – looking at plants sensitivity to pollutants as a form of resistance / protest
(remediating sensitivity:)
- aster spp – hyper accumulator of heavy metals like lead, selenium, cadmium
- euphorbia characias – hyper accumulator of lead and arsenic
- salvia nemorosa / officinalis – bioaccumulator of heavy metals like zinc (makes it wilt)
injury sensitivity :
- Osmanthus delavayi – bioindicator of sulphur dioxide pollution
- sambucus racemosa – ozone damage to leaves
- sorbaria sorbifolia – phytoremediation or particulates / sensitive to ozone
- symohoricarpos albus – bioremediator of of heavy metals like iron and zinc / ozone sensitive via leaf injury
exploring ‘wearing’ sensitively…. submerging sensitive plants into bioplastics
sorbaria sorbifolia (false spirea) / geranium maculatum (cransbill geranium) / aster spp (smooth blue aster)
made lots – not all are specifically sensitive plants but wanted to just make designs to get going a bit…
now I would like to think more about the relevance of the actual design. as earrings hang from the ears they are places fairly near to to your smell… how could i infiltrate the human sense of smell…. these plants surely have odors…
I saw a video of rosary beads being made from actual roses regionally.. they apparently hold the smell of roses for long periods of time. maybe should make beads from the specific plants that has been memorialised in the bio plastics…?
maybe the shapes of the bio plastics could correspond to the molecules the plant is sensitive to…..
minors would use these as a way to begin and end a shift. allow handed in at the start and brass at the end…..
THINKING RESEARCH 