KEPT

Gathering, assembling and sewing noxious vine Cardiospermum grandiflorum seeds and seedpods into aesthetic growing shapes to mark past, present and future choices concerning introduced species in the Australian native environment.

Cardiospermum grandiflorum seeds and seedpods glued sewed onto Mulberry paper and assembled onto soft sculptures (detail)

Cardiospermum grandiflorum seeds harvested during different time of the year (detail)

Video reportage filming the artist, Marta Ferracin, gluing and sewing the Cardiospermum grandiflorum seedpods to create assembled soft sculptures for a future artwork in progress (extract)

Bioart application textile and soft sculptures

Entropy_Kept (2018) asks us to consider what it means to create beauty or order without acknowledging possible environmental consequences.

During the early colonial era in Australia, the ornamental vine Cardiospermum grandiflorum (baloon vine) was introduced to Australia to decorate gardens. The invasive nature of the plant was disregarded, resulting in its usurpation of the native Australian habitat.

By gathering, collecting, assembling and sewing Cardiospermum grandiflorum seeds and seed pods into aesthetic growing shapes, Ferracin wants to mark the importance of past, present and future choices concerning introduced species.

Kept is the start of an ongoing project in which the artist has committed into helping to reduce the balloon vine seeds spreading and overtaking the native environment.

Artwork details

Artwork	Entropy_Kept (2018)
Material	Cardiospermum grandiflorum seed pods and seeds, mulberry paper, cotton thread and glue
Dimensions	Variable
Exhibition	Marta Ferracin + Lisa Tolcher CULTURE@WORK (CAW), Pyrmont, NSW, AU 3 - 17 November Artist talk 8 November
Art residence	art+science CAW – October 2018

Links	Exhibition catalogue

Credits

Curator
Ivana Jiràsek

Provision of CAW Space
art+science Culture@Work