Harvest Seed Of Potential - by Seema Lisa Pandya explores cycles of life through celebrating millennia-old traditions of gathering seeds from a fall harvest to sow for a lively hopeful future. Lunaria seed husks, grown in my personal garden were ceremoniously given to community members to write their one word sentiments and hopes of what could be grown for a better future. This ceremony was held in the fall of 2023 at the closing of my public art sculpture, Seeds of Potential, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Participants were told that these sentiments would be “sown” into the creation of another future art piece, which I adorned with patterns and encased in an eco-resin to create this piece, Harvest Seed of Potential. The organic surrounding forms are made of Richlite, recycled pulped paper infused with resin. These forms are also “harvested” from the designed negative space fabrication cutoff forms from the previous art piece, Seeds of Potential, thus echoing a cycle of no waste, and renewed creation as we find in nature. 38" x 145" x 6"
Photos by Reiko Yoo Yanag and Seema Lisa Pandya