Edible Memories: Foraging, Food and Photography is a workshop developped by The Gramounce tutor and editor-in-chief Barney Pau and guest artist Hannah Morgan.

Preservation permeates our everyday lives, from the promise of an extended shelf life that keeps food indefinitely edible to the myriad photos we capture every day to freeze a moment or a memory. We have grown accustomed to a sense of permanence, a desire for things to be everlasting. But nature and its seasons are about change, progression and the surprise of the new.

The workshop is led by food artist Barney Pau and photographer Hannah Morgan, whose extensive research and experience working with natural landscapes as a source of inspiration has developed into a long-lasting collaborative artistic practice. Through the lens of food and photography, this research-based workshop will take a critical look at our unnatural obsession with permanence and preservation, and introduce ideas and ways of thinking which centre on a fragility and impermanence inspired by Boisbuchet’s local landscape.

Over the week, we will seek to appreciate how the idea of ‘preservation’ can be ephemeral and impermanent, and introduce this way of thinking that can inspire us to have a more attuned relationship with the natural world around us. Together, we will engage in a series of practical, process-based activities such as foraging for plants to ferment and develop analogue photos with, making our own papers from local plants, engaging in mapping exercises and sketchbook practices, and creating dyes and printing materials. These practical activities will, in turn, serve as a point of departure for exploring broader theoretical themes around preservation and impermanence, and our interactions with the natural world.

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