Garden for Wildlife, Peter (Wights Mountain)

To create Garden for Wildlife, Peter (Wights Mountain), Renata Buziak uses an experimental photographic process that she developed and called the biochrome. This process fuses plant samples and photographic emulsions over a period of time, allowing organic decomposition to transform both materials into new, abstract, yet often accurately depicted, images of plants.

“People ask me how many I’ve put in. I’ve tried to do an estimate and I think it’s between 9 and 10,000 plants. I’m a bit of a plant collector as well. I’ve got 650 native species on the block.” Peter

Peter has been living on his three and a half acre block for ten years. Working a few hours in the garden every day, his efforts are evident in the health of his plants, the wildlife that inhabits the trees and soil, and the overall structure of this natural habitat.

Garden for Wildlife, Peter (Wights Mountain) features in Renata’s solo exhibition Revisiting Pine Rivers Gardens in Biochromes