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CARBON SINK ART PROJECT :
Phase 1 Completed
 October 1 2024 to Sept 30 2025
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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With this project,  I will be exploring, working with, and accessing similarities, contradictions, ethics, specific material qualities, and family traditions. I will be experimenting with organic materials that can be composted and that can hold many forms, purposes, and functions. At the same time, I will be mitigating environmental degradation. By experimentally making charcoal with the remains of consumed foods – coffee, avocado pits and skins, and eggshells for example – I will search and play with the qualities of each substance to develop both mediums to work with and content for my artwork.

Landscape Series

26/5/2025

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Landscape #1
Cast lawn grass paintings - Experiment #1, fermented grass casting with circle sieve, overlapping edges and drying out in sun. Painted with studio made, charcoaled spent coffee black ink and eggshell white paint. This technique is allowing me to paint on a warped and 3 dimensional surface for I am letting the "paper" dry naturally without weighing down as usual practice.
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Landscape #2
These experiments are lending themselves to more 3 dimensional landscapes than I ever imagined. The cast grass paper reacts to the sun and the different binders in such unpredictable ways. It is also an unforgiving method of production for every mark cannot be erased or altered.
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Sylvie Roussel-Janssens link
11/10/2025 05:01:17 pm

Hi Rosa,
I think that you have finished your project now. I am just having a look again at what you have been doing and find it fascinating. I love how you even got to create your own material to paint and draw on. The grey grass "paper" makes it ideal for black and white marks. Your ink is made from various carbon action. What about white? Would love to talk more soon. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  • Carbon Sink Art Project
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  • DIY
  • Work
  • Contact Info
  • Blog