Photo: Jean-Michael Seminaro, courtesy of MOMENTA
Interdisciplinary artist T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss has been weaving connections among art, agriculture, and social engagement for over thirty years. Working collaboratively with various marginalized or racialized communities in the creation of urban food gardens, Wyss is interested in the regenerative power of certain plants and their capacity to remediate barren or contaminated soils. Thanks to this natural plant-based decontamination process, tracts of land previously deemed unsuitable for agriculture often (re)become fertile spaces where herbs and squash grow alongside plants that nourish the bodies and souls of those that savour them — humans, birds, bees. Nestled in the asphalt flourish different nutritional ecosystems, tangible proof of the restorative power of biodiversity.
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