Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Derek Hill Foundation Fellow, speaks about the work she has produced during her residency at the BSR ahead of the Spring Open Studios 2025.
On a felled Pinus Pinea stump branded in red
across this very street were three barks, shields, splits, radiating fleshy peach and iridescent metallic haze hues that spoke in ways that resembled clouds and cartoons and the softest lushest gentlest soft power. Their softpower dazzled the hardpower brutes so as to wind them and thus shield themselves from the woodchipper that usually follows the fell.
In an act of spontaneous combustion, like when our compost heap ferments to wild extents and causes an allotment thrill, the three tree barks become immortal.
They turned to elemental immortal eternal forever young and healthy and indestructible carbon ancestor shields that are decorated with garlands of orange plastic oval mesh pinned pricked pierced with blue 27-gauge 0.5-inch needles. Their elemental carbon blackness is as black as the bitumen I used to douse the MDF, CNC-routed, outline of Lake Pergusa where Persephone was swallowed, in 2017. And the blue 27-gauge 0.5-inch needles are the same gauge and colour (different brand) as the needles we prepared with single use 150iu vials and powdered white tablet to make a vanishing solution to be drawn up and injected in May 2023, and September 2023 and in February 2024.
Much of our knowledge about early plants is due to the fact that very frequently plant remains became changed from their natural chemical state to elemental carbon-that is they were carbonised. Elemental carbon is practically indestructible chemically as it offers no sustenance to micro-organisms, it remains unchanged indefinitely.
Plants and Archaeology, G.W. Dimbleby.
MENOPUR (Follicle Stimulating Hormone – FSH daily dose from day 2– please keep me in the cupboard if it’s single use vials i.e. 150iu/75iu vials, or keep me in the fridge if its multi use vials i.e. 600iu vials or 1200iu vials)
https://ferringforfertility.co.uk/menopur/
When I was searching for marble scraps around via Tiburtina, by the graveyard, I got carried away and brought back fleshy Pinus Pinea innards that folded in and out like soupy tripe and filled the tram with overpowering soft power pine perfume.
I wanted the Pinus Pinea to levitate on the blue 27-gauge 0.5-inch needles and in the process I pricked myself and drew blood.
From the results of experimental applications of endotherapy intervention carried out so far on T. parvicornis in conifers, it appears that not all techniques of supplying the insecticide to the tree guarantee the effectiveness of the treatment. This aspect remains to be explored in a more consistent way to search for the most valid and most effective application method to control the tortoise scale. Scientific research is also focusing on biological control methods, controlling a parasite by exposing it to other insects or microorganisms that are predators of the harmful species.
https://efi.int/sites/default/files/files/events/2024/The%20Roman%20pine%20forests_final.pdf
Jacopa Stinchelli met me on Saturday morning at Villa Ada, we shared our live locations in whatsapp and right in the middle of the forest she said to come, in the thick, they would all be there, when I see the orange plastic oval mesh construction site barrier fencing she said, I am there.
Orange fencing=the cull is coming
the chop, the whirr of chainsaws, are on their way along with the cherry pickers that do not pick and suck the sweetest ripest of all the sweet sweet wet cherries from the cherry trees but rather hoist the oil machines up up up as high as they go far out and cranking chop chop chop.
We pass a Pinus Pinea marked in red and they look for keys but instead in the end we all use our fingernails, seven sets of fingernails in total, to burrow and scratch and scrape away all the redness spray.
Massimo sent me a video on whatsapp on Monday night of drone footage over Villa Leopardi last year.
The drone maintained and sustained height and perspective and battery to record the cherry picker miracle.
On an early morning at Villa Leopardi and other parks in proximity the cherry picker has been stretched and extended and massaged and oiled into supple stunning majestic engineering wonder dexterity.
On this miracle morning the cherry pickers do not pick and suck the sweetest and reddest and ripest of all the sweet sweet wet sticky cherries from the cherry trees but nor do they transport the chainsaws and the twin engine oil supplies for supple sharp blades to finely slice everything into the woodchipper.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/world/europe/usaid-russia-putin.html
Rather on this miraculous morning the cherry picker becomes Simone Biles gymnast ballet wonder of supple limbs that breathes deeply and focuses and pushes on and stretches as far as the tallest branches of the Pinus Pinea in the high canopies.
And all kinds of Exochomus quadripustulatus ladybird-ladybug groupings and individuals scuttle and speed and slide down the oily cherry picker’s robot arm onto their varnished nail extensions in a raucous giddy carnival mardi gras love parade to settle in the tree.
