dispersal
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Dispersal
Pinhole photos of a garden installation of seed forms, developed using the caffenol process. Both the camera and the developing process utilised what was available at home during lockdown in 2020. -
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Seed forms
Created using Phormium leaves
Inspired by seed forms - containers of potential
Seeds are designed to be dispersed - by gravity, air, water, or animals/insects
Lockdown from COVID-19 has prevented human dispersal - echoed by the stationary seed forms
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disperse (v.)
late 14c., dispersen, "to scatter, separate and send off or drive in different directions," from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere "to scatter," from dis- "apart, in every direction" (see dis-) + spargere "to scatter" (see sparse). The Latin word is glossed in Old English by tostregdan. Intransitive sense of "to separate and move apart in different directions without regularity" is from 1520s. Of clouds, fears, etc., "to dissipate," 1560s (transitive), 1590s (intransitive). Related: Dispersed; dispersing.
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