Fat Hen-Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album (fat hen) is an erect, bushy, branched annual to 1m, mealy-white all over, especially on the flowers and underside of the leaves. Flowers both spring and autumn. Found in summer in irrigated row crops and wasteland. A very common weed of horticulture. Native to Europe. Edible Uses Leaves – raw or cooked. A […]
Studio Visit
Today you had the first studio visit. A great chance to “road-test” your skills in explaining what it is that you doing, why, and how it is that doing a weed’s inventory of a particular place is art anyway? The guys from Epping Boys High seemed interested…in your web designing skills. You found refreshing to […]
Autumn in the South Coast
Day 8. It rains, a lot. It’s a good autumn, wet and mild. The plants are happy, lots of them flowering and fruiting, celebrating and propagating after an harsh and very dry summer. Today Gary showed you and Tom the way to Beeweeree. Last time you tried with Jim to reach the site you couldn’t […]
Carving A Path Through Lantana Taller Than You
Day5, you just came back to the studio, longing for the keyboard. The crickets outside compete with the fridge noise. Today Jim came to visit, he documented in a cd Rom the environment of Bundanon, frogs, mammals, fungi, plants. His work gathered information far apart and his knowledge filled your day. You discovered native Solanums […]
You Weed
Day 3, The Internet is fully working by now and you feel like changing the subject, fed up with the first person approach you imposing your readers. You like the idea of getting rid of the “I” as a cheap literally tool to draw in first person your reader. After all this is a writing […]
Weed Mysteries
Day 2, The bike raid to Riversdale was a killer, next time will get a lift. Starting collecting specimens, this morning on the Amphitheater Walk, found: Blackberry, Oxalis, PLantago, Clover, Scotch Thistle, Sheep Sorrel, Datura Stramonium, Fireweed, and an enormous amount of Lantana. I also found a number of other species which I still didn’t […]
Bulls, Books n famous views
Day 1, just came this afternoon at Bundanon, a pleasant 3 hours train ride south of Sydney, with a great book (The Bride Stripped Bare). I found this book two days ago in a box in the street, “free books” said the sign, and I am the most thankful for a fantastic gift. What I […]
Weed-Surfing the Shoalhaven
Image from Ben Harris-Roxas The time is come, after a long period of holiday/research, Tour of Beauty, SquatFest, general arty shenanigans around town and paid work I finally take a breath and focus on weed issues! On Monday, tomorrow, I’m starting a residency down south, at the Bundanon Property by the splendid Shoalhaven River. I […]
Wollombi weeds out!
Last sunday I went to Wollombi to take down WeedyConnection- A Self-Guided Tour of the Weeds of Australia. Sad but true, the tour is over! Funny enough most of the panels were already down, due to cows inability to stick to the track i guess. but dont worry, a new re-incarnation of the project is […]
About Weeds and Evolution
Mick found this article. Very interesting the fact that scientist acknowledge the strive of nature to overcome human’s destructive habits. The subject of this experiment is the Field Mustard or Wild Turnip (Brassica Rapa) Weeds signal evolution explosion Fast-growing weeds have evolved over a few generations to adapt to climate change and that might lead […]
