Bethany Davis

In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure

Mixed Media
2019
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure, I develop inspiration from Florentine floral patterns, a medium used to bestow beauty to decay. Relating a structural element of pattern, to a humanistic and cultural need for controlling the natural. Within these drawings I pictorially expresses the silent, yet resilient force of life. Where plants such as Hog Weed, Stinging Needle, wild flowers and fungi can act as a scab to cover an open wound on the earth’s surface.

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In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure
In The Cultivated Orientation of the Natural Infrastructure

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“The pain happens not in the hard but in the soft. Where the moss and mold ate the old and started the new. A balance was lost but everything in dirt and earth fought to seek the stability it once...” [More]