Starting Life
2024
18" x 13"
A series of six reduction prints The inspiration was a feminist interpretation of the curse that God placed on women for pain in childbirth. Carol Myers argues in Rediscovering Eve that the pain is in the lifelong emotional ties with children rather than the physical birth. By contrast, the six forms of seed dispersal are impersonal and painless in the botanical world.
Wind Born Seed Dispersal
The wind carries the cottonwood, dandelion, milkweed and maple seeds far away to be planted in new areas.
Fire Born Seed Dispersal
Eucalyptus, Banksia and Longleaf pine and Sequoia cones require fire to release the seeds
Gravitational Seed Dispersal
Persimmons, Hazelnuts, Columbine, Sycamore, Black Walnut seed halved.
Ballistic Seed Dispersal
Violet seeds plants shoot the seeds out from the fruit more than 25 feet away after being brushed or touched.
Animal Born Seed Dispersal
Animals disperse seeds with burrs that catch on their fur, by burying the nuts throughout the area and by their scat which is dropped randomly.
Water Born Seed Dispersal
Water carries these seeds for hundreds of miles and up to thirty days without damaging the viability of the seeds The large coconut, the mangrove seed and the lotus seed float far away from their originating plant.
