Out of Doors: enwi'r gwyllt = naming the wild... & some: 30 years is a long time part 4

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30 years is a long time part 4

A side project is occuring: looking at old photos from around the Rec and Roath Brook Garden's area and the streets just to the north and in some cases retaking. [the ...& some of the title of this blog]

Roath Brook Gardens - Sandringham Road and The Rec 1985 and 2015

Using a very different lens in The Rec in 1985. Copper beeches have been planted and grown a lot in 30 yeras.

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enwi'r gwyllt - naming the wild

What happens when we name things?

How does it change our experience of those “things”? We see, we learn the name [either by reading or having someone tell us], we write the name and we are back into the visual – a code to translate back into the aural.

How can naming the plants change our experience of a place? How do names of plants affect how we see each different sort of plant? How much can names tell us about plants and their use and what people in the past thought of them?

Part of the life of the plant is made through photosynthesis, some plants are phototoxic or have particular photonastic attributes. Most of the inhabitants [plants, fungi, animals] of this planet are photosensitive; I am particularly so. This inspires me to use light as a basic recording material: camera-less photographic techniques such as cyanotypes and lumen prints.

Collecting plant names in English and the Brythonic languages is an ongoing project.

I lived close to Roath Park in the mid-1980s and the late 1990s.

brief artist's statement