Cultural Colours

文化色彩

• 批准号: 2712527
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2712527
• 关键词: Cultural; Colours

My project aims to restore Jamaican plant colour knowledge through practice-based research, locating Jamaican plants with pigment and dye potential and extracting colours using non-toxic binders and modifiers. A physical database will record botanical and common names and local Jamaican and African plant names. I will present the entire body of research as an art form with handmade books recording experiments and plant portraits comprising prints using pigments, photography, audio-visuals, poetry and prose.I will frame the research in decolonising methodology, exploring alternative ways of documenting and shifting power dynamics. Jamaicans and their diaspora primarily refer to plants by common names, which often only exist in an oral tradition (Kelly and Dickinson, 1985). However, as international law does not legislate how vernacular names are used, I will use ethnography and field research to elevate Jamaican local plant names. This approach will help make the pigment plants easier to identify. The local terms will also provide valuable insight into Jamaican cultural uses and, potentially, another way to explore lost ancestral African connections.

我的项目旨在通过基于实践的研究恢复牙买加植物颜色知识，定位牙买加植物的颜料和染料潜力，并使用无毒的粘合剂和改性剂提取颜色。一个实物数据库将记录植物名称和普通名称以及牙买加和非洲当地植物名称。我将把整个研究作为一种艺术形式来展示，用手工制作的书籍记录实验和植物肖像，包括使用颜料的印刷品，摄影，视听，诗歌和散文。我将在去殖民化的方法论中构建研究，探索记录和转移权力动态的替代方法。牙买加人和他们的侨民主要是指植物的共同名称，这往往只存在于口头传统（凯利和迪金森，1985年）。然而，由于国际法没有立法规定如何使用本地名称，我将使用民族志和实地研究来提升牙买加当地植物名称。这种方法将有助于使色素植物更容易识别。当地的术语也将提供宝贵的洞察牙买加的文化用途，并可能，另一种方式来探索失去的祖先非洲连接。