Artist
Sara Lynne Lindsay
My work uses plant material and soil as a record of personal, cultural, and ecological history. History is not only held in the buildings and monuments, but in the soil itself. I gather this soil and foliage from both cultivated and uncultivated locations for my artwork. Using traditional domestic techniques of drying and canning, I preserve the materials that I have gathered. These will then be sewn together, cooked, and encrusted into objects. Despite my labor of preserving, these organic art supplies are transient. When made into works of art, they can be viewed in their vulnerable state, fighting against time, as they decay.
“Taken Away”
Performance art, 2018. The performance, which is not seen in the photo, includes weeds taken from the streets of Manhattan and then rubbed onto the dress leaving behind a green pigment that revealed the names of victims of the 1918 Spanish Flu who died in Manhattan. See more about this performance piece here.