A plant in the wrong place
Artist
Lee, Jenna
Production date
2016
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Object Detail
Title
A plant in the wrong place
Production date
2016
Medium
copper plate etching, image transfer, wood, engraving
Measurements
17 x 13 x 2 cm
Object type
Edition
unique
Interpretive text
“[My work] explores a weed being nothing more than a plant growing in the wrong place. It represents feelings of mixed identities; the feeling of never quite belonging in the certain spaces, spending your life in the wrong place.”
A plant in the wrong place explores a weed being nothing more than a plant growing in the wrong place. It represents feelings of mixed identities; the feeling of never quite belonging in the certain spaces, spending your life in the wrong place. The etchings of common garden weeds are combined with fleurons (a type glyph which takes on the form of a leaf of a flower) from the Caslon type family. Also known as a printer’s flower, these ‘plants’ where born within a world of metal, ink and paper. These two representations of plants in the wrong place are combined to produce a loose-leaf type specimen book. Playing with the ideas of type specimen books produced by type designers and the type specimen, the specimen in which the scientific naming is attached.
Artist statement 2016
A plant in the wrong place explores a weed being nothing more than a plant growing in the wrong place. It represents feelings of mixed identities; the feeling of never quite belonging in the certain spaces, spending your life in the wrong place. The etchings of common garden weeds are combined with fleurons (a type glyph which takes on the form of a leaf of a flower) from the Caslon type family. Also known as a printer’s flower, these ‘plants’ where born within a world of metal, ink and paper. These two representations of plants in the wrong place are combined to produce a loose-leaf type specimen book. Playing with the ideas of type specimen books produced by type designers and the type specimen, the specimen in which the scientific naming is attached.
Artist statement 2016
Credit line
Mackay Regional Council Art Collection Purchased with the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Artists' Book Fund 2018
Accession number
2018.5
