Fluid time: Exploring and documenting the rhythms and temporalities of a greenhouse complex in Denmark

This essay is a personal reflection as an artist living and engaging with a derelict plant nursery and the various opportunities for artistic practice that have arisen from this post-industrial site which is being returned to nature. It uses the context of the derelict greenhouse complex, past and present, to consider seasons as polyrhythmic and how the fluid seasonalities inside and outside have affected one another and in turn influenced the production of artwork over one and a half decades. The essay draws on inspiration from the writings of the architect Richard Neutra , philosopher Vilém Flusser , the media theorist Marshall McLuhan, the artist Robert Smithson, the anthropologist Viveiros de Castro and the theorist Nathalie Loveless . Through exploring seasonality, multinaturalism and biorealism, I try to show a way forward for artistic practice to bridge the gap that is developing between society and nature.