Minke Lupa
The Plants Are Talking
Can We Listen?
The viewer was invited to sit amongst the mythical plant beings and be in conversation with them. This was a shared space of reverence and collective listening. The experience to just be, in the space, and to sit with what it made you feel. I very much feel the collective trauma of disconnection to place and culture. I wish this exhibition to offer a remembering back into relationship with ancestral way. That our ancestor’s extent well past the human and into the mountains, rivers, the soil, plants, living world. Consciousness extends bodies into a web of interrelationships, creating conscious communicative ecosystems where humans can participate. My art practice explores these microbial-like connections of entanglement and remembrance of our ancestral connections to the living world, restoring kinship to place. These mythical beings become an invitation to listen to the plants.
