Emma Watson Instagram – “Weeds By The Moon, by Rachel Pimm presents an ongoing collection of images of edible and medicinal plants in the form of a thirteen-point lunar almanac, a diagram, or moon-dial. This is presented as a clock which is disobedient to the Gregorian calendar measurements of days, hours or minutes. The plants selected are all freely available growing wild across the UK, and therefore require no private land ownership, nor cultivation and so attention is redirected from commercial productivity into the gentle flux and natural cycle of changing growing seasons. Presented outdoors on Big Screen Southend and on Focal Point Gallery’s website, weeds by the moon functions as a clock tower without numbers, in which time is measured to a different beat from ‘Greenwich Mean Time’. The viewer can pause, rewind, fast forward or skip around to use as a resource to identify, taste and prepare wild foods and medicines for free, as a means to connect past, present and future traditions and practices. This pausing of time reveals the contents of a rich selection of sources in the form of a bibliography, alluding to universal practices of collective collating and passing on of herbal knowledge from many individuals about how to ‘read’ weeds as an open resource for common use.” @focalpointgallery @rachelpimm 🍃🍃🍃