Ladder space art 2023

Overlooked, eradicated, defiled; foraged but rarely nurtured these weeds represent the struggle for existence, they survive and regenerate with determined resistance.  The survival of weeds parallels that of the migrant, transplanted to an alien environment they persist in conditions that predict failure. 
Plants are revered but not when they’re unwelcome or out of context.  But despite their name and reputation weeds have a unique beauty. 
These works were completed in France, Brazil and Crete between 2018 and 2022 as an artist in residence and in each place became preoccupied with the uncultivated weeds which persist along the roads and alleyways..