Herbarium Photo(synthesis) Album II
January 17 – February 21, 2025 | Opening January 17
Smokestack Gallery | 270 Sherman Avenue N, Hamilton, Ontario
www.smokestack.ca | Instagram: @smokestack.studio
 
An herbarium is a collection of dried plant specimens used for scientific study. In this new series of work, Bos turns her own herbarium into a photo album by using sunlight to create images on plants. The resulting chlorophyll prints are made using the chemistry that is naturally at work in a living plant. It is the ultimate sustainable photographic process. These fragile leaves are then scanned and digitally printed. The images Bos has selected to print ‘into’ the leaves reflect the many worlds that plants sustain, while also hinting there may be sci-fi elements at play. These images are just as fragile and ephemeral as specific life-forms may be when faced with abrupt ecosystem change.