[-empyre-] Mapping Food trails ...

Tue Mar 8 06:16:11 AEDT 2016

On Mar 7, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Renate Terese Ferro wrote:

> In light of my own post yesterday I was thinking about my own strategy of drawing into the newly rototilled earth to demarcate and map the crop rows.  Sometimes vertical long rows, other times short horizontal rows but always trying to figure out where the sun, wind, and rain will best suit the harvest.  

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Renate,

You bring up several really interesting ideas. And I also thought of the relationship between last months conversation and mapping food projects! Access is everything.

But for now, I am going to talk to your idea about "drawing" into the newly rototilled earth. Even in the city, in my community garden, I subconsciously make decisions about how I arrange my garden to best access (limited) sun and rain. I like the idea that you make an analogy to a drawing practice. I'd never thought of my community garden plots that way, but of course it is an arrangement; an illustration.

And artists also arrange and draw with plants for varied reasons. There are lots of examples of artists who write words through ornamental or food plants. Andrea Reynosa's recent "Water" project is a lovely example of drawing pun intended) attention to water resource issues on the land where she lives in upstate New York. http://www.andreareynosa.com/liv/2014/11/4/bz08csac9z83snzj5u3x8hdx4qgyy3

Another favourite example of mine is Matthew Moore's works, also "drawing" with crops. His land art series, Rotations, this is exactly what he does.

Rotations: Single Family Residency was an early example http://urbanplougharts.com/portfolio/rotations-single-family-residence/

Or perhaps even more poignant is is Rotations: Moore Estates http://urbanplougharts.com/portfolio/rotations-moore-estates/

Here he illustrates the sale of family land. With some irony, in order to sustain a family farm, his grandfather sold off land for a suburban development, in part to finance the viability of the family farming business.

Amanda

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