Evolving from an interest in finding sustainable ways to make images, this project is an exploration of natural autophotography, where I make pictures of and with the environment of my garden. In this collaboration, which takes different forms depending on the processes used, I facilitate alternative forms of visuality to connect deeply with the ecology of this small wild place. The images created by the garden challenge a human-centred perspective of height and distance and offer instead a messy and entangled portrait of the subject.
Humifusa
Humifusus is the Latin botanical term used to describe plants that spread out across the ground. These images were made by pressing photographic paper face down, allowing plants, soil (and the occasional insect) to imprint their trace. This process offers a richly spontaneous and chaotic way to record the environment from an often overlooked perspective.
Tracy Piper-Wright 