Out of Doors: enwi'r gwyllt = naming the wild... & some: updating - gwanwyn // spring 2019

4.5.19

updating - gwanwyn // spring 2019 - Facebook page

As the collecting of names of plants continues I have created a Facebook page for seasonal posts that I can share in wild plant groups on Facebook.

The most recent post:

Bluebells with stitchwort & red campion .... adder's flower with milk maids and ... adders' flower // clychau'r gog, blodau neidr a ... blodyn y neidr
Cwm Gwaun Sir Benfro (gogledd), Pembrokeshire (north) May 2nd 2019. The next bit of the woods is starry white with wild garlic.

Links to names via most common name in English & Flickr!

Bluebell

Greater Stitchwort

Red Campion

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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