AMY PEKAL

is dedicated to presenting art through co-authorship and collaboration. In her ongoing artistic-research, she facilitates community interventions located at the intersection of nature and culture to help communities and institutions transition to a climate-just future. She utilizes fieldwork and qualitative data to develop paintings, texts, and participatory events which emerge from the research process and operate both as objects to generate discourse and as facilitation tools to build across difference – infrastructures for living as naturecultures

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THE POSSIBLE POLDER

THE POSSIBLE POLDER

Cultureland AIR
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2020

The Possible Polder is a series of paintings made to document the complexity of a biodiverse ecosystem. The paintings are documents of various plant speices layered between plein-air painting and abstraction to create a dense and compressed composition that speaks to the experience of the living world. In contrast to Western botantical drawings, the paintings depict dense foliage and interwoven plant matter to propose a framing of plant science as one that is interconnected by the relationships between species.

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