‘The Anthotypes flower prints reflect a Romani, Roma or traveler herbal and healing tradition. They are the ghosts of the past-past illness, past days; the shared past territory and daily interaction with non-Roma. I use these prints to create an image which decolonizes memory and knowledge, a contemporary art that by synthesising historical information, portrays new ways of looking at current social issues such as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill.
I made these prints in response to assimilation; the gradual incorporation of one ethnicity and its culture into another more dominant culture in such a way that the original culture is lost. The original flower image will fade in sunlight leaving only a blank piece of paper as it cannot be ‘fixed’ or held. They are a metaphor for forced or economic assimilation which happens to ‘other’ working, minority and migrant communities all over the world. As the image fades it loses its coherence just as a community which is assimilated loses its identity.

Dan Turner

Many thanks to Dan for this installation…02.07.23-14.07.23