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Printplants –
- are imprints of plants, and parts of plants, on wool
The imprints have been created with the juices of the plants themselves
A plant, or part of a plant, can produce only one imprint
The imprints must be done within few hours after the harvest
There is no connection between the colours of the growing plants and the colours they give off in printing
The imprints of the plants vary in colour and strength according to the time of year
Plants traditionally used for dyeing have the species name ‘tinctoria’
Printplants –
- are imprints of plant material which has been harvested in small, select localities
In each case, the plants have been picked and then printed within an interval of few hours
Printplants are registrations of select plants in a select place, at a select time
There is wild flora from along country lanes, cultivated plants from orderly cemeteries …
Genius loci – the spirit of the place – expressed through plant growth
Printplants –
- may remind one of an exhibition in a collection of natural specimens, or a cabinet of curiosities
Exhibitions of natural specimens are known from as far back as the end of the 15th century
The phenomena exhibited brought forward a curiosity to get to know the world – in its abundant plurality
It was not a question of the money value of the exhibits, but that the phenomena existed, t heir appearance – and curiosity value
Printplants –
- may be compared to the use - through thousands of years - of plants and flowers for ornaments and decorative borders
The decorative repetition may transform the experience of large and small, beginning and end, and the rhythm of repetition may create its own special atmosphere
In Printplants, each pattern component is not the mechanical repeat of a pattern report, but a unique imprint
Printplants –
- show plants and present them in frames – like a portrait of a passive bouquet in a European picture gallery – a still life
The ‘sitters’ for the portraits of bouquets were a rebus of meanings from the book of symbols within the language of flowers
Printplants have no symbols or rebus, but – in the words of the artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) when she was speaking of her documentary water-colours of plants, “- it did look like that”
Text : Nette Børkdal
Translation : Annemarie Køllgaard
- are imprints of plants, and parts of plants, on wool
The imprints have been created with the juices of the plants themselves
A plant, or part of a plant, can produce only one imprint
The imprints must be done within few hours after the harvest
There is no connection between the colours of the growing plants and the colours they give off in printing
The imprints of the plants vary in colour and strength according to the time of year
Plants traditionally used for dyeing have the species name ‘tinctoria’
Printplants –
- are imprints of plant material which has been harvested in small, select localities
In each case, the plants have been picked and then printed within an interval of few hours
Printplants are registrations of select plants in a select place, at a select time
There is wild flora from along country lanes, cultivated plants from orderly cemeteries …
Genius loci – the spirit of the place – expressed through plant growth
Printplants –
- may remind one of an exhibition in a collection of natural specimens, or a cabinet of curiosities
Exhibitions of natural specimens are known from as far back as the end of the 15th century
The phenomena exhibited brought forward a curiosity to get to know the world – in its abundant plurality
It was not a question of the money value of the exhibits, but that the phenomena existed, t heir appearance – and curiosity value
Printplants –
- may be compared to the use - through thousands of years - of plants and flowers for ornaments and decorative borders
The decorative repetition may transform the experience of large and small, beginning and end, and the rhythm of repetition may create its own special atmosphere
In Printplants, each pattern component is not the mechanical repeat of a pattern report, but a unique imprint
Printplants –
- show plants and present them in frames – like a portrait of a passive bouquet in a European picture gallery – a still life
The ‘sitters’ for the portraits of bouquets were a rebus of meanings from the book of symbols within the language of flowers
Printplants have no symbols or rebus, but – in the words of the artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) when she was speaking of her documentary water-colours of plants, “- it did look like that”
Text : Nette Børkdal
Translation : Annemarie Køllgaard