tillandsia: lumen prints will be on view at A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas from September 7 to November 18, 2018. The opening reception is Saturday, September 29th, 2018 from 4 to 8 pm. To view this event on Facebook click here.
The body of work titled “tillandsia” is the celebration of an innocuous plant that is misnamed a moss, considered a weed, and accused of being a parasite. Live Oaks in Texas look like they have stepped out of old growth forests. This impression comes partly from the twisting, sprawling form of the trees itself, and party from the ferns, mosses and air plants that grown within their canopies. One of these, however, is often reviled – Ball Moss. A post in a neighborhood Facebook group asking for help in “getting rid of the Ball Moss that makes the trees messy”, alongside the growing trend for air plants, like Ball Moss, as home decoration, was the catalyst for this work.
The lumen photograms of tillandsia plants are displayed in two museum-type tables with an accompanying field guide.
The exhibition is on view from September 7 to November 18, 2018 at A Smith Gallery in Johnson City, Texas.