Weed Manifesto
Every crack in the pavement of the present invites us to imagine a different kind of future. Every weed rising skywards points towards new possibilities for thriving.
In Chris Kraus’s epistolary novel, I Love Dick, the narrator explains, “Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there’s not enough female irrepressibility written down... I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.”
Since 2017, I’ve been photographing weeds as part of an ongoing feminist note-taking practice.
To me, the weed is the ultimate case study in irrepressibility — a form of living annotation “written” across public space and and against public sentiment. The weed is defiant, insisting on possibilities that we have yet to imagine or design for. It takes up space. It disrupts the status quo. It finds ways to thrive in even the most unlikely contexts.
