In Understorey, artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning original line drawings a year spent looking closely at weeds, our most ubiquitous and accessible plants. In gardens, on verges or clustered around municipal lampposts, weeds offer a year-round spectacle of wildlife. The benefits to us of being among greenery are well known, but what exactly are these vaguely familiar shapes that accompany our every step, yet pass beneath our notice? How and when do they emerge, bloom and subside, and what would it mean to notice them?
Meditating too on how they appear in other artists' work, from a bramble framing a sixth-century Byzantine manuscript to a kudzu vine installation in contemporary Berlin, Chapman Parker explores the art of paying attention even to the smallest things.
| ISBN: | 9780715655207 |
| Publication date: | 6th June 2024 |
| Author: | Anna Chapman Parker |
| Publisher: | Duckworth an imprint of Duckworth Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest Natural and wild gardening Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism Flowering plants (angiosperms) Drawing and drawings in pencil, charcoal, crayon or pastel Botanical art Memoirs Individual artists, art monographs Conservation of the environment |