matthew king
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  • Projects
    • Involutions
    • Mending Vessels
    • Vessel for Patience
    • Clay Bodies
    • subscape
    • Anxious Contemporary
      • Dislocated
      • Babadook
    • Metanoia
    • Fervor
    • Developmental Process
      • Invasive
      • body fluids
      • development as process
    • Sporeprint
    • portraits of metal and stone
    • hold what you expose
    • Adapt to Eat
  • older work
    • landscape
    • food
    • human life
    • animal life
    • plants & fungi
  • about me

Invasive

A photo essay made for the Walker Arts Center troubling the concept of invasive species, metaphors of human migration, and what it means to put down roots in a new place. Buckthorn is used as a primary example and medium: film images were developed using an experimental buckthorn developer, then turned into images as anthotypes on copies of the executive order defining invasiveness in the United States.
Read the full piece on the MN Artist website.
  • Projects
    • Involutions
    • Mending Vessels
    • Vessel for Patience
    • Clay Bodies
    • subscape
    • Anxious Contemporary
      • Dislocated
      • Babadook
    • Metanoia
    • Fervor
    • Developmental Process
      • Invasive
      • body fluids
      • development as process
    • Sporeprint
    • portraits of metal and stone
    • hold what you expose
    • Adapt to Eat
  • older work
    • landscape
    • food
    • human life
    • animal life
    • plants & fungi
  • about me