Timefulness, 2023. Botanical tinted cyanotype, soil-based watercolor, and plant monotpye on paper
My mixed media work Timefulness is included in the exhibition Laudato Si: Caring for our Common Home at the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. The exhibition is on view from June 11 – August 10; museum hours are Wednesday – Sunday from 10am – 4pm.
Timefulness is a term used by geologist and writer Marcia Bjornerud to describe the shifting and overlapping rates of planetary change across vast geologic timescales. My experience of timefulness has come from learning about the forces that generate ecosystems: the weathering of bedrock to form soil, and the plants that grow from that soil. This work incorporates imagery and materials from lower Fairmount Park and Penn Treaty Park. Both locations sit on the Wissahickon Formation, a metamorphic bedrock formed 500-250 million years ago, and on Trenton Gravel, a mixture of sand and clay silt deposited along the Delaware riverbed during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million-11,700 years ago). This work incorporates photographs of bedrock, rendered in botanical tinted cyanotype, paintings of topographic maps, and monotypes made with soil and plants sourced from both locations.
Participating Artists in the exhibition:Kim Bricker, Gregory Brellochs, Angelo Canta, SJ, Nora Chavooshian, David Enriquez, Roberta Tucci, Mary Negro, Rebecca Schultz, Rebecca Rutstein, Jack Elliott, Jennie Booth, June Yong Lee, Jean Burdick, Michelle Marcuse, Zhiqian Wang, Steve Donegan, Amie Potsic, Deirdre Murphy, Rosalind Bloom, Emily Brown, Billy Friebele, Sandra Benhaim, Josh Urso and Michael Webb.