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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Bethany Davis
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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]