Studio of Juliet Mootz

Reparative Land Art, Installation, sculpture, print, collaboration

Living Shadows

Living Shadows embeds narratives and physical elements of ash trees into prints, images and an artist book. Exploring the impact of Ash Die Back (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) on our locality, the project is ongoing, with an intent to raise awareness and generate art functioning as an act of reparation.

Tree canopy affected by Ash Die Back

Mature ash affected by Ash Die Back Fungi.

Stacks of felled ash, left on site for habitat and fallen deadwood.

The evening ash, a favourite tree, now lost, its shadow taken.

The mark that felled, identifed for removal, the colour remains bold 4 months later as the fragments decay.

Living Shadows, layered cyanotype image

One of 2, an ash remains behind a felled close neighbour, West Malvern, cyanotype.

Owl feather found at the fell site under the lost ash in West Malvern, Cyanotype.

Gel print, ash keys used to interpret the microscopic formation of the fungi that attacks it.

Gel print, study of life and disease and regeneration, ash keys and fungi.