Regiones Botánicas de la Tierra: Antillas No. 1

Lawrence Lithography Workshop, printer and publisher

active 2001–present

Susan Davidoff, artist

born 1953

Regiones Botánicas de la Tierra: Antillas No. 1, 2001

Where object was made: Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Material/technique: color lithograph; dirt; collage; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 1065 x 752 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 1065 x 752 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 41 15/16 x 29 5/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 41 15/16 x 29 5/8 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 50 x 37 3/4 x 1 1/2 in
Weight (Weight): 20 lbs

Credit line: Lawrence Lithography Workshop Archive

Accession number: 2002.0039

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Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World

Throughout her career, Davidoff has combined aspects of her research into the interface of the botanical and human realms by invoking maps, printed botanical lore, plant profiles, and soil. These elements are thoughtfully combined in these two lithographs from the artist’s Historia Natural series of 2001–2002, and are key components of some of her current projects, such as Simplified World, which deals with sustainability and diversity in nature. Davidoff has commented on these two lithographs:

“This series of images is based on Historia Natural – Botanica, a botanical reference book published in Barcelona in 1894...Its brown, fragile pages, scientifically accurate descriptions, and cross-sections of plants contrast with the drawn forms and, for me, become symbols for a continued spirit of observation and investigation of our place in the natural world.”

Archive Label 2003:
This imposing lithograph and its companion by El Paso native Susan Davidoff are journals of her hikes. While hiking, she sketches, takes photographs, and collects plants and other organic materials. The silhouette plant forms on these lithographs are much larger than their source because of Davidoff’s interest in pedestrians’ changing perceptions as they move through terrain. She also likes bringing a viewer’s attention to a form that might otherwise be overlooked if rendered life-size. Her prints are further connected to actual walks or hikes when she rubs collected organic materials, such as juniper berries, lichen, bark, rust, or flowers into the surface of the paper. Some dirt gathered during the hikes here recorded makes the connection between the artist’s personal experience and her work.