timeline documenting the 'August' garden project

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flower stains from my garden in Hillsdale before the threat of frost...

The circles are created by rubbing flowers and leaves on paper. Then I use a hole punch to make the circles and collage them in the form of a poem, an homage to Czech artist and poet Jiri Kolar.

These shapes are based on parking lots at the SUNY New Paltz campus. The colors are from flowers gathered at the college.

The shape is from one of the parking lots at SUNY New Paltz and the colors are stains from flowers growing on campus.

I rubbed the petals of roses and iris on paper to make these colors. The lines are created by tracing the drawing using white and magenta transfer paper.

stains from flowers from Wave Hill Garden in the Bronx, forming a diary of my residency there
As shown at the Dorsky Museum, summer 2014

pigment from rubbing flower and leaves on paper. Flowers include: domesticated Rose of Sharon, domesticated Bee Balm and wild Bird's Foot Trefoil growing in Wassaic, NY

rubbings from plants (Rose of Sharon and wild Bird's Foot Trefoil) found in Wassaic, NY

This is made using the plants from the 'August' garden, based on the calendar.

To document a garden of annual plants throughout three seasons, I planted a grid in the form of a monthly calendar of flowers and herbs in my garden in upstate New York and photographed it from the air in July, September, November and the following May. August Garden is about the passage of time in nature: how flowers grow and die and how we try to preserve the memory of ephemeral plants.

Striped plants as prisoners.