Cultural Colours

我的项目旨在通过实践研究恢复牙买加植物的颜色知识，找到具有颜料和染料潜力的牙买加植物，并使用无毒的粘合剂和改性剂提取颜色。一个物理数据库将记录植物学和普通名称以及牙买加和非洲当地植物名称。我将把整个研究呈现为一种艺术形式，用手工制作的书籍记录实验和植物肖像，包括使用颜料、摄影、视听、诗歌和散文的版画。我将用非殖民主义的方法论来框定研究，探索记录和转移权力动态的其他方式。牙买加人和他们的侨民主要用普通名称来指代植物，这些名称通常只存在于口头传统中(Kelly和Dickinson，1985)。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的名称。这种方法将有助于使色素植物更容易识别。这些当地术语还将提供对牙买加文化用途的宝贵洞察，并可能提供另一种探索失去的非洲祖先联系的方式。

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.