Trickle trickle, soil and sizzle is a collection of narrative paintings done in gouache and oil. The narratives explore relationships humans form with the landscapes (real or fictional) they inhabit. The work inspects the botanical garden as a social and cultural institution that has historically exhibited the wilderness of the global south as exotic trophies. In the greenhouses, wilderness becomes botanical. Natural becomes a cultural artifact, displaced from its soil for recreational and educational purposes. By reflecting on these contrasts— between the sterile and fertile, quiet and the tumultuous terrains, this project contemplates on the notions of migration, belonging, cultivation and inhabitation.
