I'MPLANTED
About I'MPLANTED series…
Medium
I’MPLANTED is a mixed media art piece that combines pomegranate fruit prints and watercolour painting on watercolour paper. For this series I used a hot-pressed watercolour
paper.
Specifications
The main art pieces (unframed) measures 28cm x 18cm. However some of the prints are A4 sizes.
Process
For this series, I used slices of one pomegranate to print with to produce multiple original prints. The fruit slices are applied straight onto the watercolour paper and air dried. My printing process occurs during the pomegranate season, actually after the season when all the fruit start to rot, get eaten by the birds and flies and fall off the tree. I found that these rotten, abandoned and discarded fruit are the most bright and interesting to experiment with.
Once the prints are dry, the red watercolour paint is to added to the prints. This process is therapeutic for me. After the mess, the chaos, the rot... there is silence (mainly because I paint at night!) and calmness flowing through me, mixing the paint to the right consistency and as I take note of each mark left by the fruit and notice every unique pattern.
Colour palette
The colour palette in this series is my happy place. Combining the natural colour of the fruit dye that changes all the time, from the time I start printing to the time, I complete the art piece, the colours are always changing.
The colours that I love the most is that of the print left by the most rotten fruit. The bright golden hues...
Colour palette
I’MPLANTED is the second series of my pomegranate printing series. Through the process of creating I’MPLANTED, I continue to explore my body’s journey and to represent acceptance, growth and as I reflect on my femininity.
In this series, I tried to print some of the slices of pomegranate over each other. Two different pieces of the same fruit, coming together to make something else, something different, something new… from the same grit, of the same body…
I’MPLANTED
I'M- I am!
PLANTED- The people who came before me and whose DNA is planted/imprinted within me.
IMPLANTED- Accepting who I am and accepting new ideas- being many things, all at once
I'M PLANTED- I'MPLANTED represents the idea of different parts of me, coming together, making something new and the endless possibilities.
This series remind me that there are no errors when printing with nature. This raw process revels itself to me and every fruit, even rotten, leaves a mark worth being made, witnessed and celebrated.
Slices of the same fruit, coming together to make something else, something different, something new… from the same grit, from the same body… I'MPLANTED...
