Beezome

Beezome - 2008 © Analucia Feracci - plant based pigments, sourdough starter, fur, wooden sticks, Epping Forest clay @ The Hornbeam Permaculture centre/ wall installation dedicated to Organiclea

Beezome shows underground threads linking independent communities in East London. 
It works as a mind mapping system of Temporary spaces and Pirate Autonomous Zones(TAZ/PAZ) in this specific area of London.
It visually highlights a rich and detailed network of people, from Permaculture activists to unschooling families, and how underground communities exchange skills creatively, in a non hierarchically manner. 
It also works as metaphor for the bee pollinating the flower : a bee that drinks the nectar of the flower is no longer a bee but 'a bee-becoming-flower', while the flower in return, by disgesting a system of vital information, becomes the bee.

Spot 79

Spot 79 - 2009 © Analucia Feracci

Spot 79 is a walking garden which is temporary growing in a Permaculture centre. The plankton observed in the garden survived an oil spill in sea waters. Part of many unusual phenomenons provoked by human pollution, this new form of life relates to the red water cancer, an invasion of killing algae that asphyxiate all sea life.

Spot 79, 2009 © Analucia Feracci

The plankton slowly gave life to a colony of crustacean-algae : the plants came to life, moved around, getting closer to one another.

As the garden became a place for observation, it opened onto other experiments influenced by the social life of plants like The Garden in motion and the third landscape observed by botanist Gilles Clement. 

It echoes the vibrations of plants and wildlife intelligence which Jeremy Narby explores in Intelligence in nature and Cosmic Serpent : DNA and the Origins of Knowledge; to summarise, the transmission of (molecular) knowledge between plant species and Amazonian Shamans.