Sewing the Seeds imagines a future where our garments are imbedded with native grass seeds, utilising the human body as a collaborator and seed spreader as they move through their daily life. Regenerating grasslands and acting as agents in carbon sequestration.
Sewn into the garment are seeds of kangaroo, top scented and barbed-wire grasses grown by the artist.
In Australia due to the ongoing impacts of colonisation introduced grasses have subsumed the complex bioregions of native grasslands. Covering the landscape in a blanket of endless rhizomes of mono cultured pasture. Davies explores personal and imagined future memories of place to resew grasslands into the fabric of abandoned sites of extraction. Moving through the disused quarry site allowing seeds to fall in the process.
Video work by Merinda Davies
Music Lawrence English
Videography Ellamay Fitzgerald
