A Sting from Two Houses (2022)
Nettle seeds, projector lens, beads and binding cord
C-type photograph: 40.6 x 30 cm
Dimensions various
The stinging nettle is mostly perceived as a nasty weed, the sign of trouble, an ‘outcast’, associated with wasteland, the roadside, borders, and neglect. It is also a fantastically nutritious plant, its sting a protection from being eaten before its ability to reproduce through germinating its seeds.
Here the nettle seeds share with us an image that they think we need to see. They watch it with us. Through the presence of light their own potential germination is delayed.
The stinging nettle; Urtica Dioica. Urtica is derived from a Latin word meaning ‘sting’. Dioica is derived from Greek, meaning 'of two houses' (having separate staminate and pistillate plants; dioecious).
