Exploring Edible Ecologies


July 2024-Ongoing

Artistic research project funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. An experimental inquiry into the practice of foraging in Finland. This heterogeneous practice combines food, art, and relational ecologies of belonging, questioning dualistic and power dynamic views on nature and ‘wilderness.’ 
The project investigates local plant knowledge, interspecies relationships, and seasons as rhythms through embodied research—conversations, walking as a way of knowing, foraging, cooking, experimenting, and sharing—and documentation—writing, drawing, recording, and photographing—to braid a collection of edible experiments and artworks from my perspective as a foreigner.

So far this project has had two edible installations/events/gatherings of sharing sweet and edible collages with others.  




Edible collage comprising a seasonal jorney through July and August. Becoming our surroundings. 
Photo by Rasmus Lundhal.
Meadowsweet in early July in Herttoniemenkartonpuisto.
Infusing birch leaves, fireweed, raspberry leaves, and yarrow.
Edible tres leches collage comprising a seasonal jorney through July and August. 
Photo by Rasmus Lundhal.
Sharing bits of my walks as cake.
Photo by Rasmus Lundhal.

Photo by Rasmus Lundhal.
Ingesting the landscape.
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