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ROOTS
DISRUPTERS

Disrupt the traditions. The structures that frail human hands have built to hold their memory. We will overrun, hold those memories, and so much more.

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Here plants disrupt the boundaries between traditional, orderly life and something wilder. At once frightening and beautiful, these visions capture Victorian anxieties about both the power of nature and its fragility.

Thomas COLE, Desolation, 1836

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Alfred SHARPE, A jam in the lava cleft, Hay's Creek, Papakura, 1878

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Rodrigo BUENO, Untitled, from the series "Taken Furniture", 2016

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© 2021 MADELEINE BROOKS GILLESPIE. Virtual exhibition designed for Art History 226 at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington

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