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 spent daily time with them, drawing them as they grew, tracing the gestures of their growth through my own drawn gestures, and following their movements as an imagined 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/drawings and building circularly backward from the tip of the root.

8’ x 17’. Ink, drylands grasses, time. 2019.