Blurb

Hi Camille,

Here's the blurb. It's super 'academic' in style, but I've just spent the last two days working on my dissertation and that's just what's coming out!

The nascent field of Critical Plant Studies has gained prominence in the visual arts in the last few years, likely due in no small part to it's broad, interdisciplinary appeal to discourses around growing environmental concerns. Reaching far beyond the domain of the earth sciences, the emerging cultural politics of plant studies offers a variety of dynamic and forceful theses that seek to break-down the dualistic boundaries of nature/culture while encouraging empathy, agency, relationality and the acknowledgement of total interdependence across the material world. The inaugural thematic issue of DIGEST will explore visual artists who are recasting the role of plants within their practices and gallery spaces as social and political symbols with the ability to help viewers unlearn the anthropocentric preconditioning that continues to hinder a collective appreciation of the non-human world.

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That's perfect! Thank you so much.

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