carrie phillips kieser work

entangled knowledge / public grammar

In the winter of 2020 a few trees were removed from a public space next to Nova Scotia 's Museum of Natural History. 27 species of mosses, liverworts and lichens were collected from the trees and added to the Museum's epiphyte collection. Cookie samples taken from the trees date the trees to be nearly a century old. The data collected from this epiphyte collection is used to create the project entangled knowledge / public grammar. Drawings of all 27 species are interwoven with the text on the leaves of a prescribed English Grammar book from 1921. Arranged in order the leaves create a larger drawing that attempts to illustrate the entanglement and interconnectivity with the species of trees, such that certain epiphytes grow in different vertical locations on the tree.

This project is linked to an instagram page: @public_grammar tying the physical media of knowledge to a virtual media of knowledge.

The interconnection of the project continued into further entanglement between people through an exchange of gifting.

Continued gift exchange. The original book was inscribed with a poem and given by Sue Hill. This page was gifted to by me to Carl White and in return sent me a piece of his own painted on the cover of a book of poetry by Milton.