Beast of Burden ll

Morgan Barrie

Beast of Burden ll

2019

Morgan Barrie
Archival inkjet Print
JHTW 280C

Cow surrounded by plants

BAR.19.1338

Framed

MYTH OF THE FLAT WORLD

A landscape can be read like a text, each element revealing a piece of a narrative. Weeds can tell stories of traveling across continents and displacing other species to dominate their new terrains. Cultivated plants have survived and spread partially through their seduction of human beings, and some animal species are now believed to have partially domesticated themselves. Landscape is something constructed, piece by piece, by many different players.

This body of work explores this built aspect of the environment by following the same basic structure as millefleur tapestries. Each work is assembled flower by flower so that the final image contains dozens of individual photographs. Native species mix with non-native and even invasive plants, as do human and animal elements.

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