Hanna Dotzenroth | Seed Bracelet Cycles
January 17–February 2,2024
Window Installation
In times of crisis, the garden has often been a place that we return to in search of community, food security, and hope. With this in mind, the Seed Bracelet project became a way of sharing vegetable seeds between gardeners and friends, while extending a token of care in the shape of a friendship bracelet. The project began by rolling vegetable seeds into biodegradable material and stringing them into a bracelet to be worn around the wrist, and later planted into the dirt of the garden. Both seasonal and personal cycles are represented by the circular form of the bracelet: with each bead representing an individual person and plant, the bracelet becomes a community, a community of bracelets creates a garden, and a community of gardens grows a future. As an ongoing and ever-expanding project, these bracelets continue to evolve with each season as more community members participate and grow these vegetables alongside one another.
Artwork details:
Various seed bracelets, 2023, Tomato, cucumber, pepper, radish, carrot and spinach seeds, worm castings, cotton string, 3x3x0.5”
Garden Bed Blanket, 2022 , Burlap and coloured cotton string, 50x54x0.5”
Seed bracelet resting cushion, 2023 , cotton fabric, embroidery thread, pillow stuffing, 30x30x7”
Seed bracelet cycles, 2024, window installation with chalk marker
Garden Bed Blanket, 2022 , Burlap and coloured cotton string, 50x54x0.5”
Hanna Dotzenroth (she/her) is a visual and conceptual artist living and working on Treaty 6 Territory in Beaumont, Alberta. Working in a wide variety of mediums such as painting, printmaking, photography, video, and gardening, her recent work focuses on exploring human and plant relationships at the site of the vegetable garden. She is a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Art and Design at the University of Alberta. Her work was recently on display in a solo exhibition, Sitting in the Dirt, at the Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre in June of 2023. As well, her work has been exhibited around Edmonton, Alberta in several shows including Present Tense at SNAP in April 2022, Nascency at DC3 art projects in May 2022, and Intimus at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts in August 2022. She recently completed internships at both The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts and SNAP in the Summer of 2022.