A species of fairies

Women collage artists

This time around, we are blogging about ‘wimmin’ with magical powers. ‘Wimmin‘ ???

A femme-like creatures intertwined with botanical worlds, from a natural history of fairies, of course.

‘Wimmin’ are out-wordly beings from another universe, symbiotic with plants, morphed into their germination and reproduction – a world where the co-existing species in their habitats are not classified by Linnaeus (see our previous blog), but are a spontaneous fusions of plants and human(like).

Seriously now, this is a magic brought to us (other wimmin) by fairies of art, Christine Kim and Winnie Truong. Whether they are artists themselves or whimsical creatures emerging from their artistic creations.

This is a glimpse into works of two contemporary Canadian women collage artists, both immersed into ‘botanicals’. One uses botanicals as a hideout, cover, a safe place, cocoon, and the other merges plant and human beings into an organic network of intertwined intelligence, an alternative view of life’s diversity of equals.

Reflecting back made me realize (and a simple search of this site confirms) how much ‘wimmin’ we are or have become – gardens and botanicals permeate many facets of our art, individual and collective, and us in them, planted and surrounded by delicate, magnificent and fragile worlds of other plants.

‘Close to Heart’ project lives on. We are including in it this curious species of ‘wimmin’ beings, and their creators – maybe a stretch… yet we are irresistibly attracted to this delicate habitat of gentle stems, tentacles, petals, feelers – plants or otherwise. To fairies of our secret gardens…