Arrival of the Ferns
by Amalie Rugård Jensen
What future would come out of a
If it sounds strange, that’s ok. There’s
people
art that makes people stop and
something compelling about making
past where ferns wrote poetry and started
photosynthesizing?
wonder for a second or more, is this
really true? Well. What if it was?
A better one, I imagine. The project Arrival
of
the
ferns
is
A lot of scientists who also happened
centered
to be women have been grossly
around Franciska Birchen, a scientist
miscredited
that I made up. She’s a Danish-
German therolinguist, member of the
psychochromatic society and translator of the writings of ferns. The project
out
of
or
history
entirely
over
the
written
years.
So maybe it isn’t so unlikely that someone with the name Franciska Birchen
who translates plant poetry actually
borrows its title from the first selection
existed without you hearing about it.
of poetry written by the ferns of the Oslo
Image Credit for all of the following images: Amalie Rugård Jensen.
Nordmarka in translation by Birchen.
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