Bauhinia × Blakeana | Twin Leaf

2026

Engraved aluminum and nylon garden mesh in artist’s frame

48.5 x 32.25 in

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Juxtaposing Bauhinia × Blakeana & Twin Leaf , the exhibition contrasts the living plant depicted in the Graft diptych (2025) with its herbarium-record representation. The work traces the infrastructures that hold “nature” in place: aluminum sleeves and drawers of seed banks, the mesh that braces a young tree. These systems blur the line between conservation and control. Where does a seedless plant enter a system that privileges seeds? How does a sterile hybrid persist in a foreign climate, amid pests and altered soils?

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Botany becomes my micro-lens for history—local narratives entwined with global systems of trade and rule. The exhibition approaches the archive expansively, moving between museum photographs, herbarium specimens, and my VHS tapes movie collections. Botanical traces appear as fragments: loose pages drifting from a larger book, incomplete yet insistently present.