Jowita Wyszomirska
Nothing Gold Can Stay 2
2022
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Jowita Wyszomirska
Nothing Gold Can Stay 2
2022
Physical Qualities
Eco-print, colored pencil, ink, pastel, porous-tipped pen, and graphite on paper, Sheet: 1295 × 902 mm. (51 × 35 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Sidney M. Friedberg Acquisitions Endowment for Prints and Drawings
Object Number
2024.6
These shapes of foliage and hand-drawn lines evoke the
sense of a place existing through time. Using foraged plants
from the city’s Druid Hill Park, Baltimore-based artist Jowita
Wyszomirska combined different processes to create a collection
of chlorophyl-stained imprints conveying the cycle of growth,
decay, and destruction that has shaped the mid-Atlantic region
for centuries. Botanical printing, more commonly known as
eco-printing, stains and transfersa plant's natural pigments,
shapes, and textures onto paper. Wyszomirska’s drawings of wind
patterns illustrate the interconnectedness of the ecosystem,
while the mapped locations of surviving ancient forests recall the
appearance of historical topographical maps of the mid-Atlantic
coastline, such as Élisabeth Haussard’s engraving of the
Fry-Jefferson map on view nearby.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2024; Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, DC
Engaging the Elements: Poetry in Nature
Inscribed: Signed lower right in pencil