Individual Residencies
2023 | Erika Hibbert
I explored the relationships people have with plants and I am interested in the ways people identify with and see themselves in and through plants. The connections are age-old and essential to our existence: from national identities built upon familiarity, to mass generation of plants for food, to the intimate ways individual people have particular connections to specific plants.
I experienced the local flora of central Italy and explored the ways vegetation is manifest in local society and in the lives of local people. Extending from this, I looked for parallels, similarities and contradictions in the ways people use, abuse, cherish and nurture plants in Molise in comparison with other places I have travelled and lived.