The installation growing gestures emerged from durational botanical study and relationship-building with a set of drylands grasses which I planted, watered, tended, and drew as they grew from sprouts into adolescent plants. Throughout their first months above ground, I recapitulated their gestures of growth through my own drawn gestures, following their movements as a musical score.

This score is then hand-drawn for a final repetition/performance on the gallery wall, collapsing the time and movements of growth into a single visual experience. The arrow of time within the piece flows in the same way that grass rootlets develop, starting from a central layer of cells and building circularly backward from the root tip.

Artwork information: 8’ x 17’. Ink, drylands grasses, time. 2019.