"A Soft Figure Shrouded in a Garden" by Cristina Molina @cm0lina is a dual channel narrative prose that recounts the last lesson imparted to the artist by her late grandmother Berta Molina: "follow plants." Part eulogy and part grounding exercise, this work begs the question - how does one follow the guidance of plants amidst a winter landscape when they are sleeping? To make this work dried plant specimen were collected on long walks in the snow then burned in the studio to practice botanomancy, an ancient form of divination by reading images in smoke. This video exists as part of a growing "Herbarium" - a collection of plant stories via moving images that weave story telling and botanical wisdom to safeguard inherited knowledge of plants and their teachings.

In Jonathans own words: "Aside from having great conversations with many gallery visitors about our duo exhibit, “Of Meadowsweet and Lion’s Teeth + Contour Meditations”, I was able to begin work on two new, separate bodies of work. To honour the Venta Rumba - of which I swam and played in nearly every day - I made several photographs of the wet, mossy rocks of the waterfall. This series is a continuation of my fascination with photographic detail and the magic of compressing the three-dimensional objects into two dimensional surfaces. The other series - a quite personal one - is an initial round of experiments using an image of archive of my mother, Bethany - dead since 1990."