In the June issue of Plantings, you can read my conversation with artist and designer Eliza Collin about how climate change is quietly reshaping the lives of flowering plants, and how olfactory art, film, and design can help us perceive these transformations.
« The biodiversity crisis is often understood in terms of species loss. Yet many of its effects unfold before, or alongside, extinction: living beings migrate, hybridise, manifest phenotypic variations, and find their most essential relations transformed under anthropogenic pressure. Some flowering plants, for instance, are responding to rising temperatures, pollution, and other atmospheric alterations by shifting their traits — from colour and morphology to the volatile organic compounds they release into the air — with consequences for plant-pollinator interactions, reproduction, and, ultimately, survival.
British designer Eliza Collin has made these subtle transformations central to her work. Across scent reconstructions, films, speculative botanical visualisations, and living gardens, she reveals ways of sensing ecological change as it is happening. […] »
Full article: https://worldsensorium.com/sensing-floral-futures-a-conversation-with-eliza-collin/
