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562 Fisgard wall. Trudi Lynn Smith and Lynda Gammon. 12 - 16x20" contact photographs.
Trudi Lynn Smith

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A pink rectangular poster for the exhibition Becoming Anarchival at Gallery 881 by Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith showing in the center an image of a fossil anthotype.

Becoming anarchival

ByTrudi Lynn Smith October 10, 2024October 10, 2024

Becoming Anarchival This fall, Kate Hennessy and I are presenting our collaborative work at 881 Gallery in Vancouver. The work emerges from fieldwork around a defunded paleontology research centre in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. We…

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A photograph of Trudi Lynn Smith and Kemi Craig's feet and a 4x5 view view camera pointed at the photodynamic garden

Open air photography

ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 12, 2024July 25, 2024

on most Wednesdays from 10am -12 pm, City of Victoria Artist in Residence Kemi Craig and I can be found at the Photodynamic Garden at Wark Street Commons located on unceded Lkwungen territory. We’re garden…

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An anthotype by Trudi Lynn Smith and the garden showing a blue-beige contact print of a coffee filter and some compost and garbage made during a workshop

Infinite emulsion

ByTrudi Lynn Smith June 1, 2024September 24, 2024

Vegetal colour, cabbage, rose, nettle, sopped up, mopped up, dried on paper. A solar printed intuitive contact print with diverted compost and other waste.

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A photograph showing emulsion making as part of the photodynamic garden

Photodynamic gardening project

ByTrudi Lynn Smith May 16, 2024May 22, 2024

It’s happening! Over the past while I’ve been working with my friend Kemi Craig, the City of Victoria Artist-in-Residence to seed a new photodynamic garden situated within a network of community gardens, at Wark Street…

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marigolds in a garden setting. photograph taken at the end of the day so the image shows the falling light

social practice and somatic photography

ByTrudi Lynn Smith August 14, 2023May 26, 2024

I’ve been invited into the Brock University community to work with photodynamic gardening. In September 2023, I’ll be in St. Catharines for a hands-on workshop in plant-based photography.  As part of the Walker Cultural Leader Series,…

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An anthotype made with amaraynth emulsion poured on cream paper.

Photodynamic Gardening Workshop

ByTrudi Lynn Smith March 26, 2023August 14, 2023

I’ve been invited to present a Photodynamic Gardening Workshop in June in the Hudson Valley, New York, at Bard College Farm and Studio Kipp in Rhinebeck. This two-day workshop will experiment with building community gardens…

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A photograph of a recipe for gorse color -- 1 cup blossoms, 2 cups water (boiling) and a tsp of alum, leave overnight

Colour practice: Gorse

ByTrudi Lynn Smith May 27, 2022March 27, 2023

Gorse (Ulex europaeus) is a spiny evergreen shrub. It is considered a threat to forest ecosystems where I live, and arrived as part of the colonial project. Like its lookalike, broom (Cytisus scoparius), it was…

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camellia

camellia

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 5, 2021April 8, 2021

camellia pour with full moon extracted stinging nettle and 2020 sunflower on arches hot pressed paper 2021

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Mapping Meaning Journal Issue 3

Mapping Meaning Journal Issue 3

ByTrudi Lynn Smith December 16, 2019August 14, 2023

The new issue of Mapping Meaning Journal has dropped! I’m delighted to have guest co-edited the volume with Nat Castañeda and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky. We first met as part of the Mapping Meaning initiative and…

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At the Terminus: Ethnographic Terminalia 2019

At the Terminus: Ethnographic Terminalia 2019

ByTrudi Lynn Smith November 4, 2019November 4, 2019

This year’s constellation of events will take place between November 19-24, alongside the 2019 American Anthropology Meetings at The Hangar at the Centre for Digital Media, at the heart of East Vancouver’s growing arts district….

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I acknowledge with respect that I live on the territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. I am an uninvited settler on these territories.

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