Annie Edney
Grass Friends (2024)
Cyanotype
A3 29.7 × 42cm

Cyanotype prints of salad leaves that grow in the community garden on my doorstep.

I call this the And Yet series

Because while I am cosy and warm and comfortable and can eat such abundance

And Yet

There are people in the world who cannot eat.

Are not warm.

Or safe.

And Yet

Capturing elements of light, water and colour; shifting dreamscapes; silent, sensuous and cellular in form; Edney works spontaneously, blending colour and creating composition intuitively for her drawings (or are they paintings?) and videos.

She is seeking to represent a mutually beneficial human relationship with the planet, and the multiple other-than-human species who share it with us. It's a thing beyond the intellect, coming from our ancient instinctual selves, and beyond the ken of most contemporary urban humans. It occurs at an elemental subconscious level. The urgency is to clarify this reciprocal and respectful interaction, as our human responsibility, before everything goes irretrievably to hell in a hand basket.

Her research is anchored in phenomenology, cultural ecology, myth and story; exploring ancestral memory in DNA that informs our cellular biophysical human relationship with earth.

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