“in time’s hum…” 2021 High Desert Museum

From High Desert Museum website

I’m honoured to share an exhibition of my work on flowers and pollinators with entomologist and friend, Lincoln Best.

  • View of exterior of gallery with the Blue Meadow series of images. From spring on the left side, to fall on the right side, “Flora” the symbol of spring, her face a superimposition of 3 different bee cocoons surrounded by early blooming plants, forms the dominant wall on the left. The seeds that hold the promise of a new emergence next year, hold the right side wall.

  • “Emgergence” early season native plants of Oregon
    and a selection of the native bee species that emerge at this time and forage on these plants.
  • “Senescence” mid and late season flowering plants and some of the bees that forage in summer and early fall.
  • The centre of the gallery features the display of beautiful floral specimens and exquisitely mounted native bee
    species of Oregon. The displays were designed and installed by my co-exhibitor, Lincoln Best.

Views of the Black & White images on the gallery walls:

The floral images on the walls of the gallery follow the chronology of bloom times, for the most part, A large native Larkspur marks the beginning of the Spring Wall. Although the Larkspur is not the earliest plant to bloom, placing it there was an aesthetic decision rather than a scientific one.

Detail of Summer Wall, with “Meta Flower”. A small prose poem composed of the beautiful, complex Latin terminology of botany. “How can we know a flower?” asks the plant philosopher, Michael Marder.

Detail of Spring Wall, with text, “Silent flowers speak only to the obedient ear within.” Onitsura.
Photo by Lisa Hopp-Robinson.

Detail of Summer/Fall Wall with text. “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” T.S. Eliot.
Phot by Lisa-Hopp Robinson.

Installation view of monitors displaying a selection of small animations. Photo by High Desert Museum.

Detail of Sunflower animation. Photo by Lisa Hopp-Robinson.

Installation views of Pollen Walls. First image by High Desert Museum, and second and third images by Lisa Hopp-Robinson.