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Senecio jacobaea No. 1
2014
4 x flower pressing diptychs on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper
47 x 66cm
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Irish wildflowers were collected from the mountain where the last wild Irish wolf was killed in 1786. The flowers were then pressed. Unlike traditional flower pressing, the flowers themselves were returned to the site and placed back into the land. All that remains are faint traces absorbed into the paper used to press them. The work shifts attention from the preserved specimen to what is left behind: a residue, a record of contact, and a quiet marker of place.