projects:

A number of works have come out of the overall seeds are meant to disperse project:

Focus on Joy (bouquets) [make shade offer shelter provide relief]. This iteration brings together flowers and grasses inspired by the Bentway’s (Toronto) focus on the vital and democratizing role of shade, and considers how tall plant species can contribute to offering shelter and relief to smaller plants, animals, and organisms.

Supporting the Companions. A participatory project + distanced reading circle supported by the BIPOC Fellowship. 2025.

The Parsnips are thriving! seed pack bundle and zine. 2024.

Focus on Joy (bouquets) and Focus on Fall (companion collections) seed bundles. 2024. Image from ‘Listening to the Land,’ FAB Gallery, 2024.
Times of ongoing crisis result in emotions of grief that need to be overcome and contended with. Focus on Joy (bouquets) invites us to consider the power of joy and visualize ways forward while spending time caring for and learning from flowers. Each bundle focuses on plants that grow and thrive together as companions, offering support not only to one another but to the overall ecosystem: the soil, the pollinators, the creatures that frequent them…and us. The project values the time and space shaped by the anticipation of imagining forward and invites participants to plant now for bouquets in future seasons.

Witnessing Fireweed is a longitudinal and asynchronous participatory project co-imagined by Christina Battle and Cecily Nicholson for Listening to the Land (FAB Gallery June 8 – July 5, 2024). Along with Céline Chuang, Alanna Irene Edwards, Lara Felsing, and S F Ho, they will spend time considering and learning about fireweed together across the summer, fall, winter, and spring.

A seed sharing, planting, and mapping participatory project designed with a Community Service-Learning class from the UofA, for the Listening to the Land exhibition (FAB Gallery June 8 – July 5, 2024). Each seed pack contained a number of sunflower seeds for participants to plant across the city along with a series of shared intentions offering opportunities to think about our relationship to the land and to plants anew. You can track the plantings and read some of the stories shared via this map.