Open-field DISPERSAL
(November 2023 – ongoing)
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Pieces from Open-field (2022), slowly dispersing back into the garden and surrounding neighbourhood.

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– Breadline – Making shift – Articulated kale – The ties that bind – Spell it out – Bees boiling – Woolgathering – Idle chit chat – Enclosure of the hand – A lump of something wound about – The world turned upside down –

Nature’s Fresh bread bags, plied – sacks from neighbourhood coffee roastery, smocked – thread salvaged from potato sacks – my favourite garden fork – Walking Stick Kale grown in various neighbourhood gardens – seed and seed pods saved from Walking Stick Kale – used plant pot – nails salvaged from rotting pallets once used to hold motherload-motherlode (2017-2018) compost heap – palings from our back fence – rotted sack exhumed from the neighbourhood compost heap – last summer’s plant ties cut from old t shirts – our neighbour’s washing line – lump of bread made with sourdough mother used during The making of bread, etc. (2019-2020) – forgotten potato, remembered.

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Photos: Dianna Thomson