CONSTANZA DESSAIN

Visual artist Constanza Dessain works with the morphology of landscapes to create improvised prints that reflect on ecological entanglement, practices of environmental repair and the flux of place. A PhD researcher at the School of Arts, at the University of West England, Bristol and senior tutor at the Royal Drawing School, London, she currently lives and works in the south of Scotland, where her practice-based research explores the interplay of touch, time and early photography.

REABSORPTION

Reabsorption is a series of unique prints, made by the artist Constanza Dessain as she developed a wildflower meadow with The Tweed Meadow Project. To increase biodiversity, weeds such as dock, sticky willie and ragwork are pulled out of the meadow in midsummer before they go to seed. Dumped in piles along the site's margins these plants rot, returning their nutrients back into the humus, renewing the soil. Transformed into prints, the plants release an image of themselves as their sap bleeds into the light sensitive chemicals. Both on the page and in the meadow, creation is dependent on the form of some things being undone.

Work Details

  • Reabsorption I-II (II), 2025

  • Iron salt and plant sap on paper

  • 65cm x 112cm

  • Unique

  • £2000 (framed)