Booth Event – Book Signing: Magdalena Wysocka & Claudio Pogo

The root of 36 Potplants lie 36 original artworks by Wysocka / Pogo. Each original piece is composed from two separate Risograph prints of pot plants: the prints are made on canvas, then cut apart and hand-stitched together. The source material for these prints comes from a modest booklet titled “Topfpflanzen 1,” published in 1977 by ZBE – Berlin Flowers.

There is, perhaps, a grammar to life that no organism escapes. Each being, from the smallest spore to the grandest mammal, carries within itself a syntax — a structure of reaction and resistance. The world, then, becomes a text of affinities and aversions, written not in words but in molecules. When sunlight strikes a leaf, or pheromones cross a room, there is no dialogue, yet there is meaning. One might say that all living things read each other chemically. They decipher: too much salt, too much light, too much proximity. The plant withers beside another not because it hates, but because its alphabet collides.

Book signing by Magdalena Wysocka & Claudio Pogo presented by Sun Archive and Friends