Bloodroot, Displaced - Kaye Savage

Written By Susan Patrice
 
 

Bloodroot, Displaced

Kaye Savage

 

I am investigating environmental change, especially climate change, through the lens of particular plants. After destruction of some of my intended long-term observation sites for Bloodroot resulting from Hurricane Helene, I placed some earlier photographs in new environments. The Bodies of this plant that I had been photographing are no longer accessible, and in some locations completely destroyed. I'm offering them a new opportunity to exist in a different context by placing these photographs in locations where this plant might have a chance to thrive, if it were present; instead they exist now only in our imagination and our records.

 
 
 
 
 

Kaye Savage teaches Environmental Studies at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. Her artwork spans photography and mixed media/handmade paper, with place-based themes centered on terrain patterns, ecological relationships, and representations of scientific data.

Instagram: @Savage.Kaye

 
Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

https://kinship.photography/
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