Retrieved Landscapes is a multimodal, multilocal and multitemporal artwork produced as part of Botanical Trajectories, and my ongoing PhD residency project at the University of Dundee Botanic Garden exploring colonial narratives. 

The two-channel live stream combines the apparently static image of a tropical American Tree, Annatto [Bixa Orellana] standing in the Glasshouse together with my gradually evolving installation at the Green Gallery, which shows the gradual disappearance of the Annatto Colour Pigment on a painted surface when exposed to light. 

The work brings attention to the botanical domestication and material trades that resulted from the contact between the Americas and Colonial powers. It provides an epistemological lens through which we can observe the complications within the hierarchical relationships between humans, non-humans, landscape, and the disappearance of knowledge and memory.