As I refer to rhizomes I am conscious that so does everyone else that I read about. Does this make it a more connected thing or less resonant - diluted and lazy. Phrases and words get lost in their repetition and as I reapeat I embedd something and lose it at the same time. We must at time return to what we think we know and know it a little more. Sometimes we need to see it too, see it happening - don't just think it it live it. With this in mind I let my bowl of potatoes grow and sprout and soften and connect and embed with each other. They struck out filling the bowl, twisting about the space very quietly, under the radar and unseen. If I peeked i imagined any movement would stop there and then. But I am attaching somthing to these enchroaching potatoes and their normal process of reaching out, but importantly i was thinking about them, the process the rhyzome not as an abstracted theory, a drawing, an image but in its actuality. The rhyzomatic process was happening in my utility room, not as a concept or an analogy or a metaphor it was just happening next to the washing and show polish. It carried on as people washed their hands, found swimming googles and pe kits - the potatoes continued in the way they should and the way they do. I would peep at them under the tea towel as they secretly grew away from my gaze. It is of course just what they do, nothing special, but the rhizome now defines the potato and it has changed as it has many times in my practice over the years. It is all about the potato and nothing to do with it all at.
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Kimberley FosterKimberley's practice as an artist is pedagogical, it doesn’t just reference learning, it plays with, embodies and encourages learning at its core. The objects consider ideas of collaboration and authorship, discussions about touch and encounter, and bring into active consideration issues of learning within social and participatory practices. Archives
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