I also potted up some cuttings and repotted some house plants including a cactus I had given my mum in 2006. It was so tiny and perfect in its lava-like form I think she believed it to be a decorative ornament because she never watered it, although she had green fingers and was a gifted gardener. Consequently the plant seemed to remain dormant and didn't put on any new growth in eleven years. I began to water it regularly about 4 years ago and I was astonished by how it took off, and now it has quadrupled in size. After all those years of neglect followed by sudden vigorous growth I thought it was probably time to pot it on, and oh boy did it need it! Its tap root was like a parsnip, massively strong, and all the roots had grown through the plastic pot holes and transformed into a sponge-like, flat mass. I cut the old pot away and trimmed up the roots except for the parsnip, which had thrust itself through a drainage hole and grown all around it in a big bulge. All I could do was snip into the collar of plastic to loosen it and hope the plant will push it off in time. I didn't think to take a photo but I'm sure somehow it will find a way into my work, it was kind of scary-horror.
A run of beautiful weather at the end of the week meant outdoor jobs. Laundry got out drying on the line, and B started work on building a new concrete step, and, of course, tending the garden originally created by my parents - my architect father who built and maintained the structure of the garden, and my creative, educator mother who planned and planted and weeded and nurtured it. I can sit and stare at plants for hours, working out how they grow and develop and start their cycle all over again. B and I did a lot of weeding and separating plants which had grown up through their neighbours and in the process I always find mysterious weird things, some are pictured above, which I am sure inform my drawings unconsciously.
I also potted up some cuttings and repotted some house plants including a cactus I had given my mum in 2006. It was so tiny and perfect in its lava-like form I think she believed it to be a decorative ornament because she never watered it, although she had green fingers and was a gifted gardener. Consequently the plant seemed to remain dormant and didn't put on any new growth in eleven years. I began to water it regularly about 4 years ago and I was astonished by how it took off, and now it has quadrupled in size. After all those years of neglect followed by sudden vigorous growth I thought it was probably time to pot it on, and oh boy did it need it! Its tap root was like a parsnip, massively strong, and all the roots had grown through the plastic pot holes and transformed into a sponge-like, flat mass. I cut the old pot away and trimmed up the roots except for the parsnip, which had thrust itself through a drainage hole and grown all around it in a big bulge. All I could do was snip into the collar of plastic to loosen it and hope the plant will push it off in time. I didn't think to take a photo but I'm sure somehow it will find a way into my work, it was kind of scary-horror. Comments are closed.
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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