https://meechboakye.com Meech Boakye Sun, 23 Oct 2022 03:45:50 +0000 https://meechboakye.com en https://meechboakye.com/love Sun, 23 Oct 2022 03:45:50 +0000 Meech Boakye https://meechboakye.com/love <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f613244f067edc59312cf492c2d90d066e3116fa542e9dafd5ee1d415d61ae4e/a-shufflebook-reprised-2.png" data-mid="156691948" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f613244f067edc59312cf492c2d90d066e3116fa542e9dafd5ee1d415d61ae4e/a-shufflebook-reprised-2.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82824a2f5ab65642f8435608de6bba628981c35c3c8399331389fc6e7b011adb/a-shufflebook-reprised.png" data-mid="156691942" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82824a2f5ab65642f8435608de6bba628981c35c3c8399331389fc6e7b011adb/a-shufflebook-reprised.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0801dbd03ac6eed9c700a7a5bff5bf2a7d5a64cba4114ae4c83c7452a562aedc/a-shufflebook-reprised-3.png" data-mid="156691947" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0801dbd03ac6eed9c700a7a5bff5bf2a7d5a64cba4114ae4c83c7452a562aedc/a-shufflebook-reprised-3.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07f0a986bfad8321b7f807524ab60557821cf54b1b85fc5689b7b56944b193a1/a-shufflebook-reprised.png" data-mid="156692037" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07f0a986bfad8321b7f807524ab60557821cf54b1b85fc5689b7b56944b193a1/a-shufflebook-reprised.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f613244f067edc59312cf492c2d90d066e3116fa542e9dafd5ee1d415d61ae4e/a-shufflebook-reprised-2.png" data-mid="156691948" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f613244f067edc59312cf492c2d90d066e3116fa542e9dafd5ee1d415d61ae4e/a-shufflebook-reprised-2.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/389ea896cd8023754f537685100f0ab0a37acaf236366c67ee2b5def6acef611/a-shufflebook-reprised-3.png" data-mid="156692035" border="0" data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/389ea896cd8023754f537685100f0ab0a37acaf236366c67ee2b5def6acef611/a-shufflebook-reprised-3.png" /> https://meechboakye.com/Overview Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:45:22 +0000 Meech Boakye https://meechboakye.com/Overview Explore Research Poems to learn about my experiments with plant-based milk coagulants, comissioned by Active Cultures&nbsp;︎&nbsp; <img width="2496" height="1722" width_o="2496" height_o="1722" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac2371d02924f45ad05ad935f8e3b650db621aef0417731598c3b3f1e9c6cbee/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---1-DUOTONE.png" data-mid="133863359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac2371d02924f45ad05ad935f8e3b650db621aef0417731598c3b3f1e9c6cbee/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---1-DUOTONE.png" /> AFTERWORDS, IN COLLECTIVE OFFERINGS Afterwords is a series of performances with degraded land in Guelph, Ontario, and Portland, Oregon: a participatory knowledge sharing and plant foraging walk along a landfilled river bank, ritual medicine making, and offerings to disturbed urban spaces. Read more. Last Edited 8.16.23 Cultivating ︎ <img width="2496" height="1722" width_o="2496" height_o="1722" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd407d481e8b888ad34193abfcbe09df6c23a2a02cec90475e621bdadb718084/DG---CAMPO---1.png" data-mid="133882928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd407d481e8b888ad34193abfcbe09df6c23a2a02cec90475e621bdadb718084/DG---CAMPO---1.png" /> MAKING FOOD FOR OTHERS We watched Chão (Landless) by Camila Freitas on the side of a truck once the sun had set in the middle of a tall grass field. Strawberries and beets drenched in an herbal oxymel brewed on the new moon painted our hands red, and crops in the background mirrored those projected in front of us. Read more. Last Edited 2.15.2022 Harvested ︎ <img width="1982" height="1257" width_o="1982" height_o="1257" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59acaa06a5cd12dfc25a079a403e6f7fdf3d83420453d2ff61ae88e200df78e9/DG---SLOW-WORKING.png" data-mid="133883956" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59acaa06a5cd12dfc25a079a403e6f7fdf3d83420453d2ff61ae88e200df78e9/DG---SLOW-WORKING.png" /> SLOW LIVING COOKBOOK This cookbook derived from an anonymous call for sick speech (for complaint) that Evelyn Austin and I responded to with our peers in our final semester of university. Having now both graduated, we attempt to move beyond a moment of catharsis and onto reflection. This cookbook echoes as a call for remediation through material research. Read more.&nbsp; Last Edited 4.10.2022 Harvested ︎ https://meechboakye.com/Collective-Offerings Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:45:20 +0000 Meech Boakye https://meechboakye.com/Collective-Offerings 01 AFTERWORDS - COLLECTIVE OFFERINGS, 2021 CULTIVATING UPDATED 2.15.2023 It seemed clear we would need afterwords because that was what the days felt like: living in the wake of something…I needed distraction from worrying about what skills I would have…what I would have to offer.&nbsp;Renee Gladman, “The Order of Time” Part of Collective Offerings, curated by Vince Rozario and Mitra Fakhrashrafi, Afterwords is a series of performances with degraded land in Guelph, Ontario and Portland, Oregon: a participatory knowledge sharing and plant foraging walk along a landfilled river bank, ritual medicine making, and offerings to disturbed urban spaces (“vacant, private” lots abundant with plant life, temporarily used for shelter). This work was formed out of a collaboration between Christina Kingsbury and I (several months of asynchronous virtual communication that forged an ongoing and genuine friendship between us), the generous land beside a rivers, and the resilient plant kin that hosted us on these disturbed grounds. <img width="3400" height="5255" width_o="3400" height_o="5255" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f35321928367d6ca4d5150e08e8c4af78db2c1cb99c5a500cf6ae92c1eaf055/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---3.jpg" data-mid="133631964" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f35321928367d6ca4d5150e08e8c4af78db2c1cb99c5a500cf6ae92c1eaf055/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---3.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdab9887729a1b7cf035ffba7ec68bd3c683a7f7bbc6263eed091490cf9334ac/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---4.jpg" data-mid="133631952" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fdab9887729a1b7cf035ffba7ec68bd3c683a7f7bbc6263eed091490cf9334ac/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---4.jpg" /> <img width="3300" height="5100" width_o="3300" height_o="5100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d99584f8d3ffd17adcb54771d2087012d8b7b3ffc315bcbc84540ad2dfdac50d/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---5.jpg" data-mid="133631953" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d99584f8d3ffd17adcb54771d2087012d8b7b3ffc315bcbc84540ad2dfdac50d/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---5.jpg" /> Digital versions of the three takeaways avavilable in the gallery: a poem broadsheet written by me, a collaboratively drawn map of the walk along the Eramosa River and an invatation written by Christina.&nbsp; PAST PROGRAMMING Folks were invited to a communal journaling session. A collaborative document was be sent out to those interested in anonymously adding their words to a polyphonic assemblage of meandering thoughts. It began with excerpts from an asynchronous written exchange between Christina Kingsbury and Meech Boakye as they worked through the muddiness of trans-plant ecologies, proposed rituals for healing from extractive landscapes, and became friends. The document can be accessed here.&nbsp; EXCERPTS FROM THE COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT CK: We talked a little bit on Zoom about how mainstream conservation practices frame thinking about native/non-native plants in dualistic and often militaristic and zenophobic ways. This often manifests as romanticizing a notion of essentialist or pure “nature” and contrasts that with language referring to non-native species as invasive and alien —something to be feared and eradicated. If we move towards considering a more complex consideration of plant communities... MB: As I mentioned on our call, I’m&nbsp; trying to form a relationship with these plants, reciprocating with gratidue and acts of care. I’m working on these mini relics, altar sites, burial sites...I’m not sure yet what they will be called but the idea is that these objects are fully compostable, contain medicinal herbs would be buried at a few sites I’ve been visiting and foraging from. Ultimately, I’m trying to say thank you as best as I can. What I make would merely be a bit more long-term than previous thank-you’s which are usually hummed songs, or touch, or water... MB: However, I’m worried that although the contents will all be biodegradable, perhaps a burial could alter the composition of the soil in a way that’s harmful...and I’m thinking about ideas of displacement and burial in these empty lots perhaps not being my domain to speak of as a housed person. But at the same time, I am grappling with death and hauntings and displaced ancestors. I’m thinking about ghosts as comfort. I’m finding objects in my dreams I’m trying to remember. CK: We are in the midst of a drought here - it is heavy, so hot, the soil is incredibly parched and dusty. The setting sun and clouds are aglow with hazy and surreal pinks, oranges and reds as smoke from wildfires north of here scatter the yellows blues and violets from sight.&nbsp; At the landfill I am watering this almost one acre garden with what feels like a tiny watering can MB: I am thinking about the heat today, it is supposed to be 39° tomorrow. The sky is starting to get smokey. CK:...I also relate to these plant bodies that are doing their best to survive in contaminated landscapes, growing and living and relating in the ways they know how. There is something here too...about the visibility of bodies impacted by contamination. That there is an impulse within colonial/capitalist society to cover up, erase or hide certain kinds of illnesses (cancer patients’ hairless heads). And that perhaps this is connected to the impulse to eradicate the invasive plants growing in a landscape. In some ways, perhaps the visibility of these bodies act as a testament and a trace of harm and violence enacted in a landscape. CK:&nbsp;I want to be careful in how I express this not to re-collapse into simplified, dualistic or anthropomorphic (in the worst sense) modes. I am interested in finding ways to stay in the complexities around this conversation. I also think about the limits of my own positionality and perspective of my white bodied settler self and wonder if it is my place to speak or put words to this. Ultimately, I have a strong hunch that these plants have a lot to teach us about how bodies and beings survive and heal in landscapes that are marked and impacted by degradation and contamination. And also about our responsibilities to the politics and history of place. MB: I’m dreaming up carrier bag bundles to offer to “vacant” lots as a thank you for their abundance and teachings. I’m also thinking of them as a greeting... A list, just like this; garlic, skins; hydrosol, fennel, mint, yarrow, bramble leaf, bioplastic, gelatin; memory, not mine; cordage, plantain; tea, sun-dried blend (calendula, tulsi, anise hyssop), avocado &amp; red onion skin dyed pouch; mullein seed pod candles; a poem CK: I am thinking about creating a recipe, score,&nbsp; or an invitation that could be a container, a receptacle (thinking of Ursula K. Leguin here) to hold and weave and entangle some of the complexity (the harvest) of our conversations &nbsp; <img width="4790" height="6773" width_o="4790" height_o="6773" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc73aa2fc9731eecc874e64f7d79bcd1ec1a40d4a25c8ca6bf332d8a923d6019/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---2.jpg" data-mid="133631949" border="0" alt="A poem broadsheet with text that ebbs and flows in curved lines. There are three photos of trees in various states and ASCII illustrations of butterflies, flowers and a winged horse." data-caption="A poem broadsheet with text that ebbs and flows in curved lines. There are three photos of trees in various states and ASCII illustrations of butterflies, flowers and a winged horse." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc73aa2fc9731eecc874e64f7d79bcd1ec1a40d4a25c8ca6bf332d8a923d6019/DG---COLLECTIVE-OFFERINGS---2.jpg" /> <img width="7040" height="4510" width_o="7040" height_o="4510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e96b7e0ceb9d557baf636bf724446549341578c408020882c2141fba8b22516/_HAF7606.jpg" data-mid="133642080" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="Wall text in vinyl and Buckthorn ink, poem, map with invitation, seed carrier bags: native seeds (Joe Pye Weed, New England Aster, Goldenrod, Blue Vervain), cotton fabric dyed with Black Walnut, Sumac and Goldenrod collected from the Eramosa riverbanks, string, instructions." data-caption="Wall text in vinyl and Buckthorn ink, poem, map with invitation, seed carrier bags: native seeds (Joe Pye Weed, New England Aster, Goldenrod, Blue Vervain), cotton fabric dyed with Black Walnut, Sumac and Goldenrod collected from the Eramosa riverbanks, string, instructions." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e96b7e0ceb9d557baf636bf724446549341578c408020882c2141fba8b22516/_HAF7606.jpg" /> Wall text in vinyl and Buckthorn ink, poem, map with invitation, seed carrier bags: native seeds (Joe Pye Weed, New England Aster, Goldenrod, Blue Vervain), cotton fabric dyed with Black Walnut, Sumac and Goldenrod collected from the Eramosa riverbanks, string, instructions. WRITING ON TRANSPLANT COLLABORATIONS After the exhbition ended, Christina and I wrote two articles that further discussed the concept of transplants. C Magazine’s Transplant Collaborations can be found here and Arts Everywhere’s Strange, Delightful, Impure Frolic, part of their Complicating Care series can be found here. TRANSPLANT FIELD GUIDE We were also comissioned to create a work for the South Asian Visual Arts Centre’s (SAVAC) Ishtar’s International Network of Feral Gardens. For this comission we wrote a short publication called Transplant Field Guide that explored our relationships with six plants labelled invasive and offered a plant mediation for readers to complicate their relationships with unknown or “invasive” plants they encounter in their own lives. The printable and digital guides can be found here. Public programming for this publication included two walks along disturbed landscapes. One walk was hosted by artist Alize Zorlutuna along the West Toronto Railpath. The second was hosted by artist Vince Rozario alongside an artist talk following the screening of Jumana Manna’s film Foragers. More information about the walks can be found here and here. PAST PROGRAMMING As Collective Offerings wrapped up, folks were invited to a communal journaling session. A collaborative document was be sent out to those interested in anonymously adding their words to a polyphonic assemblage of meandering thoughts. It began with excerpts from an asynchronous written exchange between Christina Kingsbury and Meech Boakye as they worked through the muddiness of trans-plant ecologies, proposed rituals for healing from extractive landscapes, and became friends. The document can be accessed here. COMIC - THESE ARE FEELINGS NOW As Christina and I worked on Afterwords, I was comissioned by Brian Gee to create a comic for The Globe &amp; Mail’s weekly summer comic series. Writing became a perfect container for some of the thoughts I was sharing with Christina and helped me realize that poetry might be the way to document this work in the gallery. &nbsp;<img width="2700" height="5625" width_o="2700" height_o="5625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce96c17da7f57d5f93020bd04a92769d822cf47a3d8856da1dbf42b14f9e6161/G-M-Comic-Final--Updated.png" data-mid="133642193" border="0" alt="A comic made for the Globe &amp; Mail called These are Feelings Now. Please contact for full transcribed text." data-caption="A comic made for the Globe &amp; Mail called These are Feelings Now. Please contact for full transcribed text." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce96c17da7f57d5f93020bd04a92769d822cf47a3d8856da1dbf42b14f9e6161/G-M-Comic-Final--Updated.png" /> View These Are Feelings Now on The Globe &amp; Mail’s website.&nbsp; The Art Gallery of Guelph as well as the Eramosa and Grand River systems are located on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. The “Dish” was a bowl of hunted animal meat; one spoon so that no person would take more than they needed and everyone would be able to eat, no knives. Everyone living within the borders referred to as Canada is a treaty person and responsible for sharing and sustaining the land for ourselves and the next generation. View Collective Offerings on the Art Gallery of Guelph’s Website. https://meechboakye.com/Campo-Collective Wed, 16 Feb 2022 05:10:14 +0000 Meech Boakye https://meechboakye.com/Campo-Collective MAKING FOOD FOR OTHERS HARVESTED UPDATED 16.8.2023 GARLIC FEST, 2023 Press Release - 9.7.2023 First Annual Portland Garlic Fest Organized by Meech Boakye and Jade Novarino Inspired by the 22 years of Gilroy Garlic Festival featured in the film Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers, we bring you the first annual garlic festival in Portland, Oregon (not to be confused with the Elephant Garlic Festival in North Plains, Oregon). Are you passionate about garlic? Interested in learning more? Want to share recipes or stories about garlic? Or are you just curious to see what these Garlic loving freaks are up to? Join us at the First Annual Garlic Fest from 5 pm to sundown on July 30th, 2023! Featuring works by local artists, live music, allium-flash sheet stick and poke tattoos by Brit Abuya and Taylor Ruttenbur, a garlicky potluck, a collaborative love poem to garlic, a showcase of garlic varieties grown by small producers in the Willamette Valley, and a looped screening of the film Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers by Les Blank. The festivities begin at 5 and go until sundown. Music at 6 pm. &nbsp; <img width="2500" height="3863" width_o="2500" height_o="3863" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b8f782395f68465fa15fe1a5b943fbcd20e7d10a3eaf7332af1402827c54a90/GarlicFest_11x17Poster.png" data-mid="188112940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b8f782395f68465fa15fe1a5b943fbcd20e7d10a3eaf7332af1402827c54a90/GarlicFest_11x17Poster.png" /> <img width="2186" height="3060" width_o="2186" height_o="3060" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d70d5037c5f80596c06b2eaf017586714e9388d98ee122759030441ddef2fd08/GarlicFest_5x7Postcard.png" data-mid="188112941" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d70d5037c5f80596c06b2eaf017586714e9388d98ee122759030441ddef2fd08/GarlicFest_5x7Postcard.png" /> A couple of prints I designed. Other art included a hand carved block print of various garlic varieties; a tote collaboratively made by dyeing in comfrey leaves and screenprinting; garlic embroidery, and more. <img width="1165" height="1165" width_o="1165" height_o="1165" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1988171070f2014c8ea7fb87012a049c4c665196397bbd4f94b91a722b12eae3/IMG_9379.png" data-mid="188113519" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1988171070f2014c8ea7fb87012a049c4c665196397bbd4f94b91a722b12eae3/IMG_9379.png" /> <img width="2693" height="2693" width_o="2693" height_o="2693" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a81cad0655d8d516ec4f07d565049da50a2d32f499ddc5be39d5d687447174f9/IMG_9447.png" data-mid="188113517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a81cad0655d8d516ec4f07d565049da50a2d32f499ddc5be39d5d687447174f9/IMG_9447.png" /> <img width="2663" height="2662" width_o="2663" height_o="2662" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d685f480f0ab2f26bd2876ff4de89e64cee750660f1f5ff96e7a7962febcbbb/IMG_8083.png" data-mid="188113518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d685f480f0ab2f26bd2876ff4de89e64cee750660f1f5ff96e7a7962febcbbb/IMG_8083.png" /> Garlic Fest was dreamy, buttery, spicy &amp; overflowing with love. <img width="3506" height="3506" width_o="3506" height_o="3506" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8ca04ede2c8071ee2f706f814bcceaa3565d4eea96b40b4f060de2259abfa4c/GF_IG.PNG" data-mid="188113515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8ca04ede2c8071ee2f706f814bcceaa3565d4eea96b40b4f060de2259abfa4c/GF_IG.PNG" /> COOKING FOR CAMPO COLLECTIVE’S AGROECOLOGY FILM SERIES, 2021 We watched Chão (Landless) by Camila Freitas on the side of a truck once the sun had set in the middle of a tall grass field. Strawberries and beets drenched in an herbal oxymel brewed on the new moon painted our hands red, and crops in the background mirrored those projected in front of us. This film followed the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), who have been “occupying an indebted sugarcane factory’s land to press for its redistribution through land reform…[struggling] to conquer a small share of land where they can settle down and live a self-sustainable life, growing agroecological crops in a newly knit peasant community they draw in their dreams.” <img width="4488" height="2516" width_o="4488" height_o="2516" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76f69195f16dd2116bc60a9b49da8aca1659f61a721c6fea4a812e7facbbfd1a/DG---CAMPO---CHAO.png" data-mid="133889913" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76f69195f16dd2116bc60a9b49da8aca1659f61a721c6fea4a812e7facbbfd1a/DG---CAMPO---CHAO.png" /> Still from Chao (Landless) by Camila Freitas. The menu was planned and started in spring with the anticipation of the season’s first strawberries. I was provided with borage, voilas, greens of all kinds, the last of the turnips, garlic scapes, calendula, and sought out local honey and whole grain flour.&nbsp; MENU Sun Tea Tulsi Basil, Anise Hyssop, Chamomile, Borage, Blueberries, mineral tap water Twice Ladled Kombucha Strawberries, Anise Hyssop, Black Tea, Cane Sugar, SCOBY, fermented for two weeks New Moon Oxymel Raw Apple Cider Vinegar, Raw Blueberry Blossom Honey, Bundle of Flowering: Green Sage, Thyme, Lemon Thyme, Thai Basil, Chamomile infused on the June New Moon Infused Vinegar Raw Apple Cider Vinegar, Thyme, Catnip, Feverfew, Thai Basil infused for two weeks Salt Roasted Beets &amp; Strawberry SaladChioggia, Golden and Red Beets roasted in a salt dough, Strawberries, New Moon Oxymel Salad &amp; Douglas Fir Tip Dressing Speckled Butterheads, Foraged Douglas Fir Tip Syrup, Infused Vinegar, Olive Oil Dijon Mustard Labneh Whole Milk Yogurt drained for 16 hours, topped with sage, lemon thyme, viola infused olive oil Sourdough Focaccia with Labneh Whey Sourdough Starter, Local Organic Hard Spring Wheat Flour, Local Einkorn Flour, Bread Flour Calendula &amp; Ginger Wild Yeast Loaves Calendula Petals and Ginger fermented with sugar and tap water for 4 days, Local Einkorn Flour, Spelt Flour, Edison Hard Spring Wheat Flour, Bread Flour Charred Alliums Garlic Scapes, Cipollini Onions &amp; Scallions, broiled Pickled Kohlrabi Purple &amp; White Kohlrabi, Summer Savory, Coriander Seed, Cane Sugar, Salt White Vinegar Pickled Turnips Pink &amp; Purple Turnips, Flowering Thyme, Coriander Seed, Cane Sugar, Salt, White Vinegar Thyme Brown Butter Cookies Lemon Thyme, Unsalted Butter, Vanilla Bean, Eggs, Local Einkorn Flour, AP Flour, Baking Soda, Salt, left in the fridge for 48 hours before baking, topped with Violas and Bachelor’s Buttons <img width="2685" height="1839" width_o="2685" height_o="1839" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4b293f73d8a68eb6096a3b7922c03111ccc9c7fd78bcce7069811916ee34688/IMG_0068.png" data-mid="133885548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4b293f73d8a68eb6096a3b7922c03111ccc9c7fd78bcce7069811916ee34688/IMG_0068.png" /> <img width="2037" height="2716" width_o="2037" height_o="2716" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2d7b93235d4697e14c8cbe0c506afe17da6b44acdff7aafd0187274dcaaa70d/DG---CAMPO---4.png" data-mid="133885884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2d7b93235d4697e14c8cbe0c506afe17da6b44acdff7aafd0187274dcaaa70d/DG---CAMPO---4.png" /> <img width="2484" height="2477" width_o="2484" height_o="2477" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb1f180190cf2bc8e6f00bd37b7ea681e26d066c0ec6d46b36cd218c9bd6e411/DG---CAMPO---6.png" data-mid="133885897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb1f180190cf2bc8e6f00bd37b7ea681e26d066c0ec6d46b36cd218c9bd6e411/DG---CAMPO---6.png" /> Above: documentation of the day of, below: documentation of tests and prep. &nbsp; <img width="2177" height="2974" width_o="2177" height_o="2974" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab4c84814a06f535648c425786948afbd50251c9181a1318a464a2977a7ac7bd/DG---CAMPO---3.png" data-mid="133885878" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab4c84814a06f535648c425786948afbd50251c9181a1318a464a2977a7ac7bd/DG---CAMPO---3.png" /> <img width="2513" height="3017" width_o="2513" height_o="3017" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11bfa822894e86846a4c55768c0db3f6970276afedfa5dc4a18200f8ec97018f/DG---CAMPO---7.png" data-mid="133885904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11bfa822894e86846a4c55768c0db3f6970276afedfa5dc4a18200f8ec97018f/DG---CAMPO---7.png" /> <img width="2798" height="1708" width_o="2798" height_o="1708" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ff2cf3b03019b9a2d9fbc568cb8abf095816c2505e792daf5cf6c482547581b/DG---CAMPO---5.png" data-mid="133885890" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ff2cf3b03019b9a2d9fbc568cb8abf095816c2505e792daf5cf6c482547581b/DG---CAMPO---5.png" /> A huge thank you to Stoneboat Farm and Campo Collective for welcoming me so generously. I admire the care taken towards stewarding the land you farm on, sharing the bounty it provides and redistributing funds to local land-based projects. <img width="4032" height="2667" width_o="4032" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba21beb388def72f9be6f1db8374822b7e15b0a53fa3c27b9b45d3874478e448/DG---CAMPO---SCREENING-VAN.png" data-mid="133889914" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba21beb388def72f9be6f1db8374822b7e15b0a53fa3c27b9b45d3874478e448/DG---CAMPO---SCREENING-VAN.png" /> View the other films as part of this screening series here &amp; here. &nbsp; https://meechboakye.com/Slow-Living-Cookbook Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:52:11 +0000 Meech Boakye https://meechboakye.com/Slow-Living-Cookbook 03 SLOW LIVING COOKBOOK, 2020-22 CULTIVATING UPDATED 2.18.2022 Slow Living Cookbook derived from an anonymous essay, “A Call for Complaint: for Plauge Speech, for Sick Speech” in Queer.Archive.Work.’s Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis. Evelyn Austin and I responded by prompting our peers for complaint as we navigated our final semester of university, made virtual through school closure during the pandemic. At the time, denoted by color from it’s 17 authors, it documented the overwhelming fatigue and alienation felt in mis-translation from an in-person art studio to online classroom and demonstrated the failure of pedagogy under capitalism during a pandemic. &nbsp; Excerpts from “A Call for Complaint: for Plauge Speech, for Sick Speech” “The word complaint derives from plague, in a vulgar sense, to strike at the breast. A complaint: sick speech.” Sara Ahmed, Complaint&nbsp; There is a balm, a relief in shared complaint. There is a need to document this complaint. [Sara] Ahmed calls for the complaint to become a collective, “in order to create a shared record or to share experiences,” because “the work of complaint does not stop with a complaint (although it is hard to tell when a complaint stops and starts) in part because when you complain you find out about others who have complained.” As a way to keep the silence at bay, we log in. The inside of our houses are raucous and cacophonous with the voices of friends, family, colleagues. In the absence of physical spaces, we establish a commons [emphasis author]...We do this precisely because of the call to abandon complaint, to set it aside...We speak to remember. We speak to maintain memory...We speak to remember how we are maintaining as individuals, and to remember what this moment broke open. <img width="4032" height="2688" width_o="4032" height_o="2688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbcacc1a68ea02345616b400639233acc4ecc673ffe88f558708b0ef9d55ad3e/IMG_5587.jpg" data-mid="133989864" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbcacc1a68ea02345616b400639233acc4ecc673ffe88f558708b0ef9d55ad3e/IMG_5587.jpg" /> <img width="2881" height="1920" width_o="2881" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/080ada78cbe825b591cd4e882907e683e7320194302eeb6c0828c36395bde562/IMG_4689.jpg" data-mid="133989862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/080ada78cbe825b591cd4e882907e683e7320194302eeb6c0828c36395bde562/IMG_4689.jpg" /> Pesticide sprayed edible plants, garlic skins and florist waste suspended in gelatin bioplastic.&nbsp; The cookbook format was influenced by Tiare Ribeaux’s Bioplastics Cookbook for Ritual Healing from Petrochemical Landscapes. Existing as an open-source ritual in webpage form, Ribeaux’s cookbooks aims to “refigure materials and methods for radically remaking the historically dominant petrochemical derived plastic materials that we use in our everyday lives”. The cookbook ultimately “envision tactics for reclaiming, rebuilding, and healing from the extractive and destructive processes of techno-capitalism” by sharing recipes that prompt a “collective shift in our material relationships”. Slow Living Cookbook is a collection of material research and reflections on the attempt to make, work and live slowly amidst crisis. Asynchronously written thoughts, tangential comments and recipes converse with one another and in their assemblage, borrowing from Anna Tsing, perform their livability. Our encounter of slow working and living is based in degrowth, referencing Jason Hickel’s theory of radical abundance, Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing’s words on multispecies care and collaboration, Robin Wall Kimmerer and Winona Duke’s Indigenous teachings of gift economies, and the Ojibway legend of the Windigo (a monster who’s hunger grows as it consumes). Slow working is regenerative working. Attempting to move past the catharsis and record-keeping of complaint, we offer a temporary remedy with the potential of sustained remediation. Excerpts from Slow Living Cookbook Meech Boakye: Plastic is perhaps more a state-change than a substance. It is the sum of millions of years of degraded organisms’ bodies, chemically altered to a state of no return. It is the end of transformation, after death. Evelyn Austin: Then pipelines cut through the earth and again these substances are dangerously introduced where they cannot mix. Life is bulldozed and scraped, balances of ecosystems disrupted, then leaks and rust lead to contamination of the soil and water. Then what we see, what we have, what we hold, is the plastics. Relics of violence, of fossils of life now erased, stripped, and homogenized, and re-fossilized synthetically. There are so many voices behind those relics and I want to know their volume. MB: Now the days are going to differ between environments and seasons but at some point in the process the water should be cloudy (mine was peachy from the light pink flowers), have a pleasant, light floral wine smell and some bubbles. Flowers may also clump and float to the top. Maintaining a warm temperature seems to the difference between sluggish and vigorous life so it seems necessary to keep in a warm place. EA:&nbsp;The thought first came to me two summers ago while staring at a clear amber sap that had run down the side of a tree and oxidized to form a translucent casing over a sticky glob of thick sap. I was doing some work that summer with polymer resin, and frustrated with how over-processed the substance was; how without break down, unending it is. How presumptuous a material. Contributing Artist Collin Tatton:...and when I listen close enough I can hear the voice belonging to Mary Sam of Big Cove...I will continue for seven generations more CT: I started to see patterns through the clay, like how the flat was flanked on the west by a long protecting hill of felsite rock, run-in parallel to the course of the bocabec river, and on the east by a similar ridge which steerage the river from Digdeguash Inlet, was the spot. To the north of this clay flat, where there is now an open field, the standing forest broke off the winds of winter; and to the south was the sea, where driftwood in abundance was thrown up, and where canoes could be kept. I already knew the tides ride from twenty to twenty five feet at this place; therefore it was well suitable for bivalves and clams. The sands, below the surface, are black with organic matter accumulated by the ocean and decayed over time. Such sand would be an amazing fertilizer paralleled only by the clay itself. MB: On a burning planet, a full embrace of non-human kin (fungal colonies, lactobacillus, and soil microbes, etc.) as the root, herb and salt of regeneration may be our only strategy for survival. They teach us that reciprocity is the sustaining force of all life. On a burning planet, communal care must begin in the peripheries, extending care to non-human creatures and to beings we may not consider living, providing material mutual aid and keeping each other safe. EA: I’m trying to come to terms with my feelings of guilt (for not doing everything I could), my fear, and my grief knowing that oil has begun to fill the Line. I’m trying to learn to pray with my feet.&nbsp; <img width="1691" height="1691" width_o="1691" height_o="1691" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/020b8bd1493c029d9ab3399238e29942d4ffd62a11a94a41f2791bae3833d897/FullSizeRender1.png" data-mid="133993359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/020b8bd1493c029d9ab3399238e29942d4ffd62a11a94a41f2791bae3833d897/FullSizeRender1.png" /> <img width="2032" height="1355" width_o="2032" height_o="1355" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4aec158acbfcddadac7988939ab4fe96b1cc7c898956384f02796ab88d79be67/IMG_8314.png" data-mid="133984905" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4aec158acbfcddadac7988939ab4fe96b1cc7c898956384f02796ab88d79be67/IMG_8314.png" /> Prunus blossom yeast water and sloppy bondage bun tests. Publication&nbsp; Following the completion of a digital course on The Handmade Web (offered by Megumi Tanaka through&nbsp;Index Space), a front-end development approach to design, html &amp; css and digital gardening, Evelyn and I hand-coded a website with support from Xpace Cultural Center.&nbsp; “I evoke the term 'handmade web' in order to draw attention to the physical body...I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as a form of resistance” J.R. Carpenter via Megumi Tanaka’s Intro To Coding for Designers Programming &amp; Further InterventionOn April 8th,&nbsp;2022, Evelyn &amp; I presented an agar and gelatin bioplastics workshop and a Slow Working drop-in hour. Recordings collected from this event contributed to an ongoing sound intervention by Ashley Ona Bott.&nbsp; View the ongoing research board on are.na. View Slow Living Cookbook until March 2023. https://meechboakye.com/Illustration Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:15:48 +0000 Meech Boakye https://meechboakye.com/Illustration MEECH BOAKYE&nbsp; HOME&nbsp;︎ INFO&nbsp;︎ CONTACT <img width="1750" height="1210" width_o="1750" height_o="1210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93ff9e261b414b47fb76e3c71510cf3f96289d72b09f38ef12c436b850d9c376/Local-Love-New-Colours.png" data-mid="102773304" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93ff9e261b414b47fb76e3c71510cf3f96289d72b09f38ef12c436b850d9c376/Local-Love-New-Colours.png" /> <img width="2551" height="3300" width_o="2551" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d830834636f19e8fc137a2144f6b6416ad9d2b974820d93d9050b234d5ae2e13/Ephemera_Issue4.png" data-mid="102773275" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d830834636f19e8fc137a2144f6b6416ad9d2b974820d93d9050b234d5ae2e13/Ephemera_Issue4.png" /> <img width="1750" height="1994" width_o="1750" 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Previous clients including Google, Microsoft x NBA, Spotify, Skittles, NPR, Facebook, &amp; The Globe &amp; Mail. ︎ Email︎ Instagram︎ Are.na https://meechboakye.com/About Sun, 13 Dec 2020 16:32:13 +0000 Meech Boakye https://meechboakye.com/About Meech Boakye Meech Boakye is an artist and writer based in Portland, OR. Boakye's practice engages in collaborations with multispecies kin ranging from biomaterial research to digital gardens to fermentation workshops. Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto, their work has been published in C Magazine, The Globe &amp; Mail, Hard Pack Magazine, and Mossflower Journal and exhibited at the Art Gallery of Guelph, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Trinity Square Video and Xpace Cultural Centre. Boakye was named one of Everpress's Artists to Watch in 2022, also receiving a Make|Learn|Build award from the Regional Arts &amp; Culture Council that same year. ︎ Email ︎ Instagram ︎ Are.na Media Interview,&nbsp;The Preserve Journal&nbsp; AGO Talks Interview,&nbsp;Madelyne Beckles Mention in Aspic Sculpture IV: Material Poetics, Miles RufeldsFemme Art Review Interview, Adi Berardini Everpress 2022 Artists to Watch The Slowdown: Taste, Alexxa Gotthardt About this site: This website is a digital garden containing ideas for research, works-in-progress &amp; documentation of finished work. The words&nbsp;planted, cultivating, and harvested represent these stages of progress, respectively. 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