This section gathers essays that explore the ideas underlying the practice, considering how painting engages with labour, ecological memory, and cultivated plants emerging as living presences across time and distance.

The texts articulate the studio’s conceptual ground rather than comment on individual works. New essays are published every four weeks.

Plants as presences
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Plants as presences

For centuries, plants have been treated as specimen, resource, or ornament. This text proposes another relation: to meet them through attention rather than use, and to allow them to stand as living presences in their own right.

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