Plant thinking, a way of looking at plants through plants, “brushing on the edge of their being”, gives us an alternative angle to look at them. In his texts Michael Marder describes plant thinking as 'thinking without a head’, allowing us to deconstruct the human lens that observes plant life within the greater hierarchy of human service. To see plants without a hierarchy, even within their own species, flips the idea that the flower is the pinnacle of the plant.
“Décalquer” in French means to reproduce a drawing by following the outline of a shape, either through transparent paper or on the drawing itself using carbon paper. For this work, the weed becomes illuminated, the surface of the page inscribed with the traces of its persistent search for life. An exchange process between a plant, the materiality of the medium and the place of its encounter (in this case a transformed train station) is captured during an artistic residency in Canelas, near Aveiro, in 2023.
