TITLE: Flora McCallica
AUTHOR: paula roush
MEDIUM: 27 Photo-collages, gelatin silver prints with herbarium specimens, 39.5 x 29 cm each
Flora McCallica is a collage of orphan photos from a set dated 1958 found in Lisbon flea market and a 1920s herbarium (Herbarium Britannicum) deaccessioned by London Kew Gardens. The title is an evocation of Mary Delany, inventor of botanical collage (Flora Delanica 1772-1782) and Annie McCall founder of the Maternity Hospital (1889-1970), where msdm studio was based, as member of Stockwell Studios.
The collages have auto-ethnographic and archaeological references, and like pieces of evidence altered by the passage of time, the digital and hand-made prints show stains and patterns that are unique to each work.
contact
paula roush ::: paularoush@gmail.com
msdm studio ::: msdm@msdm.org.uk