https://fruitandrot.com Fruit & Rot Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:12:48 +0000 https://fruitandrot.com en https://fruitandrot.com/HOME Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:13:15 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/HOME https://fruitandrot.com/Catalog Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:12:48 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/Catalog Recipes for a Warmer World Recipes for a Warmer World: Cooking up Plants of the Futurescape as Colors, Scents, and Foods invites multi-sensory appreciation for plants that will likely thrive in a future landscape. It includes tested recipes for extracting color from seven plant species, along with secondary recipes for either scent or taste. Four essays frame this DIY making initiative—an essay on ethnobotany, one on the chemistry of color, another on the colonization of pokeweed, and a speculative hike along the Appalachian Trail. Risograph and offset printed146 pages, 6.5”x9”Edition of 100April, 2024 ︎ $33 ︎ Add to Cart <img width="3250" height="2438" width_o="3250" height_o="2438" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48193e6c88e5337ece3fb62ea759c4654306a06c2464be5fed9c5758dc8e2102/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_Recipes.png" data-mid="215936084" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48193e6c88e5337ece3fb62ea759c4654306a06c2464be5fed9c5758dc8e2102/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_Recipes.png" /> TwistiesA risograph collage with accompanying prose that seeks to complicate our understanding of Japanese Knotweed and the terminology (invasive, non-native) that “others” not only the species, but also the cultures and places from which it originates. Collage and prose risograph-printed on Hemptone paper by French Paper Co.Edition of 508.5x14”Double-sided ︎ $50 ︎ Add to Cart <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6877ba7451afdfef678e076e9ee501854f8e328fce00173ae2d0db6ed3915b20/Twisties_Legal_image1.jpg" data-mid="215936080" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6877ba7451afdfef678e076e9ee501854f8e328fce00173ae2d0db6ed3915b20/Twisties_Legal_image1.jpg" /> NectarA zine celebrating Japanese Knotweed—it’s beauty, evils, and benefits—accompanied by an 11x17” print of the plant.Risograph-printed on Hemptone paper by French Paper Co.Edition of 1511x17”Double-sided︎ $45 ︎ Add to Cart <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2a01e6a64d14f434ec86c6d36df3903d9805541c3bfcb48c82a9e635440f782/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_Nectar3.jpg" data-mid="215936064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2a01e6a64d14f434ec86c6d36df3903d9805541c3bfcb48c82a9e635440f782/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_Nectar3.jpg" /> My Mother’s Mother’s MotherSmall edition print of Edwin Torres’ poem “My Mother’s Mother’s Mother” performed at Soon is Now in 2021. Torres is a bilingual, New York-based poet—a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist” whose work is “rooted in the languages of sight and sound.”Risograph-printed on Hemptone paper by French Paper Co.Edition of 259.5x16” Folded size 4.75x8”Poet: Edwin Torres, 2022Signed copy ︎ $25 ︎ Add to Cart <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fca3efeb9e58b736f184db3f83abfb8a628e9f05ae07df75f1e9697fa8012109/IMG_9988_edited.jpg" data-mid="215936082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fca3efeb9e58b736f184db3f83abfb8a628e9f05ae07df75f1e9697fa8012109/IMG_9988_edited.jpg" /> Plant One on MeAn interactive zine that asks participants to respond to various prompts about their relationship with a specific plant in their community. Responses were part of a public exhibition that explores the theme of plants, place and belonging.Risograph-printedEdition of 200 (no longer available)11x17”Double-sided ︎ ALL GONE <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74194250f7d3491a481609da252f82a34cd173d89c9fca556ce12c2ed9ce49c5/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_PlantOne1.jpg" data-mid="215936065" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74194250f7d3491a481609da252f82a34cd173d89c9fca556ce12c2ed9ce49c5/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_PlantOne1.jpg" /> Tools for Excavating Virgin SnowAn ecological and social field guide to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, accompanied by documentation of a durational action tracing the perimeter of an aerial bomb military training site located within an ecologically rare dwarf pine plain.Perfect-boundEdition of 505x7”28 pages ︎ ALL GONE <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1b931b05457db01a22a93ef540e6b7ee1079d2461a22e8b36c7d8d9b5023341/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_VirginSnow1.jpg" data-mid="215936066" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1b931b05457db01a22a93ef540e6b7ee1079d2461a22e8b36c7d8d9b5023341/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_VirginSnow1.jpg" /> Intergalactic Navel Gazing Lyrical essay and collage archiving an encounter with the Umbilicaria mammulata lichen. This work engages a symbiotic species to elaborate on the concept of interspecies dependency.Edition of 508.5 x 14”Double-sided ︎ $35 ︎ Add to Cart <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/826a70d7ecd1846e90e69e6315b6716b9aaa9bfc95bc7cdd7e19fd853132f97a/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_IntergalacticNavel1.jpg" data-mid="215936067" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/826a70d7ecd1846e90e69e6315b6716b9aaa9bfc95bc7cdd7e19fd853132f97a/NIEVESGREY_FIXEDWIDTH_IntergalacticNavel1.jpg" /> Performing Vowels in the Note of Blue Zine Performing vowels in the note of blue is a score for non discursive communication with(in) a grove of red pines somewhere in the Catskills. Risograph-printed broadsheet acts as a choreographic score and was provided as a takeaway for viewers during the exhibit.Risograph-printed with silk flag remnant Edition of 10 8x8” ︎ $75 ︎ Add to Cart <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c76ec648b5da8c6d964c3974f4d0a2f11bcb1016160b38dc9c8301f04c70e611/0043_Edited.png" data-mid="215936083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c76ec648b5da8c6d964c3974f4d0a2f11bcb1016160b38dc9c8301f04c70e611/0043_Edited.png" /> I Talk to the Wind A broadsheet that integrates ecologist Richard Karban’s research on airborne communication in sagebrush plants with Marianne von Willemer’s love poem to Goethe.Risograph-printed Edition of 100 (no longer available) 11x17” Double-sided ︎ ALL GONE <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f03bd31c9f406f9832f75aaf17fff2f7a41a1e10ff7865144686ec83e96d16c/ITalk_image.png" data-mid="215936077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f03bd31c9f406f9832f75aaf17fff2f7a41a1e10ff7865144686ec83e96d16c/ITalk_image.png" /> https://fruitandrot.com/Recipes-Project Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:27:14 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/Recipes-Project Risograph and offset printed146 pages,&nbsp;6.5”x9”Edition of 100 April, 2024 Editor: Jean BrennanDesigners: Janneane Blevins, Jean Brennan Contributors: Jean Brennan, Sarah Elisabeth, Cindie Kehlet, Audrey L.M. Lindsey ︎ $33 ︎ Add to Cart Recipes for a Warmer World: Cooking up Plants of the Futurescape as Colors, Scents, and Foods&nbsp;invites multi-sensory appreciation for plants that will likely thrive in a future landscape, using the Climate Change Tree Atlas, among&nbsp;other research. It includes tested recipes&nbsp;for extracting color from seven plant&nbsp;species, along with secondary recipes for&nbsp;either scent or taste.&nbsp;Each plant is accompanied by photos and a description such as the common and scientific names, family, habitat, and ecological significance. As a cross-disciplinary project, Recipes for a Warmer World offers four essays to frame the DIY making and instructional initiative of the book. These are—an essay on ethnobotany, one on the chemistry of color, another on the colonization of pokeweed, and a speculative hike along the Appalachian Trail. Essays are written by Pratt faculty—artist/designer Jean Brennan, chemist Cindie Kehlet, environmental scientist, Audrey L.M. Lindsey—and herbalist, Sarah Elisabeth (Director of A Farm for All!). The book was designed by Pratt GradComD alum, Janneane Blevins, and Jean Brennan, and printed by Lucky Risograph and Conveyor Studio. The project was supported with a grant from the STEAMplant Initiative.&nbsp; Futurescape exhibition and book launch at the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, Pratt Institute, April 2025, included both the book as well as artifacts made during the research. https://fruitandrot.com/Twisties-Project-1 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:18:16 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/Twisties-Project-1 Risograph-printed on Hemptone paper by French Paper Co.Edition of 508.5x14”Double-sidedArtist: Jean Brennan, 2021 ︎ $50 ︎ Add to Cart In the U.S. and Europe, Japanese Knotweed is one of the most hated non-native plants for the damage it can cause to an ecosystem, and yet there is no away—eradication is impossible. This project—through video, writing, image-making, and ethnobotanical uses like natural dyeing—seeks to complicate our understanding of the plant and the terminology (invasive, non-native) that “others” not only the species, but also the cultures and places from which it comes. The collage and prose shown here accompany a 5-minute video, titled The Wild Garden. Both were created during a residency at Subcircle in Biddeford, Maine. https://fruitandrot.com/Nectar-Project-1 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 17:17:33 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/Nectar-Project-1 Risograph-printed on Hemptone paper by French Paper Co. Edition of 15 8 pages,&nbsp;11x17” unfolded Double-sided Artist: Jean Brennan, 2021 ︎ $45 ︎ Add to Cart A zine celebrating Japanese Knotweed—it’s beauty, evils, and benefits: nectar, invasive, medicinal, allelopathic, edible, erosive, adaptive. The zine is accompanied by an 11x17” collaged print of the plant.&nbsp; https://fruitandrot.com/My-Mother-s-Mother-Project Sat, 01 Oct 2022 20:11:12 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/My-Mother-s-Mother-Project Risograph-printed on Hemptone paper by French Paper Co.Edition of 259.5x16”&nbsp; Folded size 4.75x8”Poet: Edwin Torres, 2022 Signed copyDesign/printing by FRUIT&amp;ROT. ︎ $25 ︎ Add to Cart Small edition print of Edwin Torres’ poem, My Mother’s Mother’s Mother, performed at Soon is Now in 2021. Torres is a bilingual, New York-based poet—a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist” whose work is “rooted in the languages of sight and sound.” Soon is Now is an annual immersive day of climate theater, art and activism set in Scenic Hudson's Long Dock Park, a former industrial site and brownfield transformed into an ecologically sustainable park on the Hudson River in Beacon, NY. https://fruitandrot.com/Plant-One-on-Me-Project Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:08:22 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/Plant-One-on-Me-Project Risograph-printed on Hemptone paper by French Paper Co. Edition of 200 (no longer available) 8 pages, 11x17” unfolded Double-sided Artist: Jean Brennan in collaboration with Rachel Zollinger and Subcircle Residency, 2021 Plant One on Me was part of a community engagement project developed for Subcircle Residency in Biddeford Maine. The interactive zine asks participants to respond to various prompts about their relationship with a specific plant in their environment. Responses were part of a public exhibition that explores the theme of plants, place and belonging at Engine Arts. https://fruitandrot.com/Tools-for-Excavating Sun, 03 Apr 2022 17:19:32 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/Tools-for-Excavating Perfect-bound field guide Edition of 50 5x7” 28 pages Artist: Jean Brennan, 2020 ︎ ALL GONE The project began with an excavation of family history related to site and resulted in an ecological and social field guide to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, along with a durational action and accompanying set of tools. The walk traced the perimeter of an aerial bomb military training site, located in an ecologically rare dwarf pine plain during the season’s first snow. The field guide includes an essay, project documentation, and images that register how areas of the Pinelands have been deemed ’sacrificial zones’ (Naomi Klein) despite their ecological significance. https://fruitandrot.com/Intergalactic-Navel-Gazing-1 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 17:20:08 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/Intergalactic-Navel-Gazing-1 Ink jet prints on cardstock (flesh) and text weight (purple) paper Edition of 50 8.5 x 14” Double-sided Artist: Jean Brennan, 2023︎ $35 ︎ Add to Cart Intergalactic Navel Gazing is the archive of an encounter with the Umbilicaria mammulata lichen. Printed broadsheets with collage and lyrical essay mix science, historical and personal accounts to describe foraging and processing the plant. The print accompanies a series of flamework glass vessels containing lichen dye. This work engages a symbiotic species to elaborate on the concept of interspecies dependency. https://fruitandrot.com/I-Talk-to-the-Wind-Project Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:33:16 +0000 Fruit & Rot https://fruitandrot.com/I-Talk-to-the-Wind-Project Risograph-printed Edition of 100 (no longer available) 11x17” Double-sided Artist: Jean Brennan, 2017 This risograph-printed broadsheet integrates ecologist Richard Karban’s research on airborne communication in sagebrush plants* with Marianne von Willemer’s love poem to Goethe that addresses the wind. It also served as a score for a live performance at Sagehen Creek Field Station in Tahoe National Forest. Audience members, along with incognito performers, were guided along a path, and onto a foot bridge where they discovered stacks of the broadsheets. Silk scrims dyed with sagebrush, wolf lichen and lodgepole pine bark, harvested on site, set the stage for a reading, in the round, of the poem Suleika I.&nbsp; *Inspired by ecologist Richard Karban’s research on airborne communication in sagebrush plants, leading to resiliency in the species: Damage-Induced Resistance in Sagebrush: Volatiles are Key To Intra- and Interplant Communication by Richard Karban, Kaori Shiojiri, Mikaela Huntzinger, and Andrew C. McCall