The Edible Map project
This page of my work explores the ways I have used art practices such as map making, walking and talking to engage residents with the subject of urban agriculture. I have called this The Edible Map project and have developed a series of drawn maps of neighbourhoods that visualise the potential for local food production within the various typical spaces of a city: rooftops, car parks, grassed spaces, and vacant lots. I use these maps to take people on walks around their city where discussions can develop in situ about how innovation in everyday urban spaces to incorporate food production.
These diverse approaches bring drawn map to life through stories and enactments. It transforms the dead map into a lived and enacted map representing the experience, hopes, dreams and stories of its residents.
The Fish Spirit Catcher, is one of two costumes and masks I have been making over 2020. The second is the Urban Wheat Guardian, which forms part of…