Jenn Law’s practice involves letterpress printing poetic sentiments onto the leaves and petals of wild and domestic plants, often as the first stage of a multi-print process. This iterative way of working explores collaborative strategies of making and communicating, fostering a form of correspondence with botanical subjects, where each plant uniquely receives and edits the texts through processes of healing, growth, and decay. For her current exhibition “this is how we survive”, Law turns to her own garden for strategies of adaptation, cooperation, and resilience from two seemingly disparate plants: the dandelion and the rose, historically cast as weed and cultivar. Taking the plants apart to print and recompose into new forms, Law teases out common ground through layered, overlapping texts, probing how we might learn to co-evolve and live together.

Jenn Law is a Toronto-based artist and writer whose work explores the relationship between language, culture, and the natural world. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from SOAS, University of London, UK, a BA in Anthropology from McGill University, Montreal, and a BFA from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. Her practice combines writing, printmaking, book arts, and site-specific interventions, and has been exhibited in Canada, the USA, Australia, Taiwan, Spain, and the UK. She is the co-founder and editor of the experimental publishing platform Arts + Letters Press and the journal art + reading. This fall, she is co-launching the collaborative platform Canadian Print Stories on print culture in Canada.