The seed, so to speak, was a plant sprouting from a plastic bottle that Jesuit priest, contemporary artist, and independent curator Jason Dy, SJ chanced upon almost a decade ago in a carpentry shop near the Ateneo in Quezon City. This idea has now sprouted into thirteen terrariums which he presents in Care/Control (Towards a Sustainable Ecosystem).
In this exhibition, Dy invites us to a phytophenomenology; particularly, one that aims to capture and investigate the aliveness of plants in these terrariums: how these living matter perceive the prevailing atmosphere, and subsequently, how they are able to nurture and nourish themselves with respect to available space, temperature, light, and water.
Excerpt written by Lea Marie Diño.
