Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy, Anthotypes (2024) Artwork
Artist: Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy
Title: Anthotype (2024)
Medium: Emulsions made from purple cabbage, sweet pea blossoms, roses, elderberry, beet, evergreen huckleberry, raspberry, calendula, poppy and marigold.
Artwork Size: 8x10, 11x14 and 20x24” (approximate)
Editions: 1 of 1
Anthotypes (Anthos = flower) are photographic images made with plant based emulsion. They are considered a non-toxic, relatively unstable non-permanent image that fades over time. These images will begin to shift in noticeable ways over months and years.
The emulsions were grown in Smith’s photodynamic garden from a mix of pinkish plants: purple cabbage, sweet pea blossoms, roses, elderberry, beet, evergreen huckleberry, raspberry, calendula, poppy and marigold. They were contact printed on rag platinum fine art paper. The exposures ranged from a few hours to a few weeks and images bear the marks of changing climate conditions: sun intensity, cloud systems, rain, and wind.
Artist Bios
Trudi Lynn Smith is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria (Canada). Trudi specializes in interdisciplinary research-creation and collaboration, working with human and more-than-human communities at the intersection of experimental art, ethnography, and political ecology. Her practice is grounded in a concern with the embodiments, relationships, techniques, and ethics of image-making and explorations of impermanence and uncertainty in photography.
Kate Hennessy is Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (Canada). As an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary research-creation and production studio, her work uses collaborative, feminist, and decolonial methodologies to explore the impacts of new memory infrastructures and cultural practices of media, museums, and archives. She values working across disciplinary boundaries in her practice, including expression in video, photography, digital fabrication, and virtual exhibition.
Together, they form the art and curatorial collective Pairatext.
Artist: Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy
Title: Anthotype (2024)
Medium: Emulsions made from purple cabbage, sweet pea blossoms, roses, elderberry, beet, evergreen huckleberry, raspberry, calendula, poppy and marigold.
Artwork Size: 8x10, 11x14 and 20x24” (approximate)
Editions: 1 of 1
Anthotypes (Anthos = flower) are photographic images made with plant based emulsion. They are considered a non-toxic, relatively unstable non-permanent image that fades over time. These images will begin to shift in noticeable ways over months and years.
The emulsions were grown in Smith’s photodynamic garden from a mix of pinkish plants: purple cabbage, sweet pea blossoms, roses, elderberry, beet, evergreen huckleberry, raspberry, calendula, poppy and marigold. They were contact printed on rag platinum fine art paper. The exposures ranged from a few hours to a few weeks and images bear the marks of changing climate conditions: sun intensity, cloud systems, rain, and wind.
Artist Bios
Trudi Lynn Smith is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria (Canada). Trudi specializes in interdisciplinary research-creation and collaboration, working with human and more-than-human communities at the intersection of experimental art, ethnography, and political ecology. Her practice is grounded in a concern with the embodiments, relationships, techniques, and ethics of image-making and explorations of impermanence and uncertainty in photography.
Kate Hennessy is Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (Canada). As an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary research-creation and production studio, her work uses collaborative, feminist, and decolonial methodologies to explore the impacts of new memory infrastructures and cultural practices of media, museums, and archives. She values working across disciplinary boundaries in her practice, including expression in video, photography, digital fabrication, and virtual exhibition.
Together, they form the art and curatorial collective Pairatext.
Artist: Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy
Title: Anthotype (2024)
Medium: Emulsions made from purple cabbage, sweet pea blossoms, roses, elderberry, beet, evergreen huckleberry, raspberry, calendula, poppy and marigold.
Artwork Size: 8x10, 11x14 and 20x24” (approximate)
Editions: 1 of 1
Anthotypes (Anthos = flower) are photographic images made with plant based emulsion. They are considered a non-toxic, relatively unstable non-permanent image that fades over time. These images will begin to shift in noticeable ways over months and years.
The emulsions were grown in Smith’s photodynamic garden from a mix of pinkish plants: purple cabbage, sweet pea blossoms, roses, elderberry, beet, evergreen huckleberry, raspberry, calendula, poppy and marigold. They were contact printed on rag platinum fine art paper. The exposures ranged from a few hours to a few weeks and images bear the marks of changing climate conditions: sun intensity, cloud systems, rain, and wind.
Artist Bios
Trudi Lynn Smith is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria (Canada). Trudi specializes in interdisciplinary research-creation and collaboration, working with human and more-than-human communities at the intersection of experimental art, ethnography, and political ecology. Her practice is grounded in a concern with the embodiments, relationships, techniques, and ethics of image-making and explorations of impermanence and uncertainty in photography.
Kate Hennessy is Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (Canada). As an anthropologist of media and the director of the Making Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary research-creation and production studio, her work uses collaborative, feminist, and decolonial methodologies to explore the impacts of new memory infrastructures and cultural practices of media, museums, and archives. She values working across disciplinary boundaries in her practice, including expression in video, photography, digital fabrication, and virtual exhibition.
Together, they form the art and curatorial collective Pairatext.