A palimpsest for the tongue (2024 - ongoing/work-in-progress)
From a new ongoing series/work-in-progress wherein archival images are imprinted on banana leaves as a way of transforming them into material archives: ' a palimpsest for the tongue'. Here the palimpsest refers not only to the juxtaposition of different archival images on the same leaf in some instances, but to the overlay of human intervention on plantlife as an ongoing palimpsest and negotiation of our engagement with the natural environment. The installation presents a cartographic assemblage that collapses time and space and communicates human-nature entanglements by virtue of migration - forced and otherwise - and economic production systems.
This piece was created as a first prototype for a larger installation. The artist would like to thank the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) in Miami for providing the space to conduct further research and create this work.
Photo credit: Artist and Diana Larrea
The artist would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.