O ciclo de um objecto. Um pequeno objecto esquecido, soterrado, perdido. Visível apenas por um vestígio — neste caso, uma pequena planta que cresceu a partir dele — do seu centro translúcido e irregular de resina. Mas tal só se torna perceptível através do processo de desfazer o encobrimento — escavar, desenterrar, limpar. Exposto, o ‘achado’ é estudado e caracterizado de vários pontos de vista. Segue-se o abandono e o regresso do objecto ao mundo. Progressivamente reclamado pelo mundo natural, pelas plantas vivas, que o recobrem uma vez mais, afinal dando-lhe — outra — nova — vida. Um pequeno tesouro portátil, de bolso (onde guardam as crianças os seus tesouros), que termina dentro de uma jarra. Lentamente a criar raízes para ser (re)entregue à terra pelo/ receptor/a da obra, como forma de desenvolver completamente a sua finalidade vegetal.
Um objecto criado e fotografado pela artista pressupõe a intervenção do/a receptor/a, com vista à criação de algo vivo. Pode esse acto de criar algo na natureza ser também artístico e, assim, tornar-se o/a receptor/a num/a criador/a, também ele/a? A vida (vegetal) como arte?
The cycle of an object. A tiny object, forgotten, buried, lost. Visible only by a trace — in this case, a small plant that grew from it — from its translucent and irregular resin centre. But this only becomes perceptible through the process of undoing the cover-up — dig up, clean. Exposed, the ‘finding’ is studied and characterized from several points of view. Then, follows the abandonment and return of the object to the world. Progressively claimed by the natural world, by living plants, that cover it once again, giving it after all — another — new — life. A small portable pocket treasure (where do children guard their treasures) which ends in a jar. Slowly taking root to be (re) delivered to the ground by the final recipient of the work, as a way to completely develop its vegetable purpose.
An object created and photographed by the artist implies the final recipient’s intervention, aiming to create something alive. Can the act of creating something in nature be artistic also, and thus does the final recipient become a creator also? (Plant) life as art?
Um objecto criado e fotografado pela artista pressupõe a intervenção do/a receptor/a, com vista à criação de algo vivo. Pode esse acto de criar algo na natureza ser também artístico e, assim, tornar-se o/a receptor/a num/a criador/a, também ele/a? A vida (vegetal) como arte?
The cycle of an object. A tiny object, forgotten, buried, lost. Visible only by a trace — in this case, a small plant that grew from it — from its translucent and irregular resin centre. But this only becomes perceptible through the process of undoing the cover-up — dig up, clean. Exposed, the ‘finding’ is studied and characterized from several points of view. Then, follows the abandonment and return of the object to the world. Progressively claimed by the natural world, by living plants, that cover it once again, giving it after all — another — new — life. A small portable pocket treasure (where do children guard their treasures) which ends in a jar. Slowly taking root to be (re) delivered to the ground by the final recipient of the work, as a way to completely develop its vegetable purpose.
An object created and photographed by the artist implies the final recipient’s intervention, aiming to create something alive. Can the act of creating something in nature be artistic also, and thus does the final recipient become a creator also? (Plant) life as art?
