Madeline Crockett

My practice investigates the complex relationship between art and nature. By exploring life cycles of living and dying, I consider the materiality and fragility of nature, its potentiality and unpredictability. Cyanotypes capture the impressions of flora as a photograph from the sun, a moment in time, a breath emerging from the page. My work explores weeds; the subversive aliens, shape-shifters, outlaws. They shoot out roots like tentacles, latched to the earth, they are vigorous and thrive in adversity. Weeds are smart, they look ahead and chose new paths and strategies. If you think about it, humans are the biggest weeds of all.