Botanica Lucida focuses on translucency, illumination, and plant-based color as carriers of ecological memory. Each element functions as contemporary reliquaries—holding traces of botanical life while emphasizing permeability, vulnerability, and transformation. Light operates as both material and collaborator, activating the work through time, movement, and changing conditions.
The title is a play on the idea of a camera lucida:
camera lucida
ˌkam(ə)rə ˈluːsɪdə
noun
an instrument in which rays of light are reflected by a prism to produce an image on a sheet of paper, from which a drawing can be made.
With a nod to light as an active element in the work, shadows are a form of drawing on the wall with each element is a tiny snapshot of the natural world.