How to Put a Cabbage on the Wall

The cabbage leaves are beautiful and delicate and look beautiful photographed. The reality is that they are a bit scruffy with blue cabbage stains and a few bits of yellow wax I can’t remove. For the final show I would like to practice making some really clean cabbage leaves just as a demonstration of what is possible and a series that are made from garden debris and compost pulp. Additionally indigo is the next stage for me but the commercial ink is not in keeping with the project.

A single cabbage leaf - as a future project I can see the simplicity being enough but possibly scanned and 3D printed in wax and then cast on a huge scale.

Again a single cabbage leaf has a lot of impact and the compost humus is beautiful and brings out the natural patterns. It also conceals some of the ugly compost debris!

I had originally considered presenting casts in rows but they then seemed too orderly and didn’t seem to work alongside the edge-less-ness and fraying I am working with. There’s a part of me that loves the idea of a grid, hexagons, efficient patterns, which exist beautifully in the natural world and create functional systems. The above are a bit inconsistent as they take forever to make and this is as far as I have got. I will have time to make more before July but not for submissions.