Linden Nectar Ed. 4 of 5

Linden trees are healing, inspirational and abundant in nectar. Linden’s sweet-scented flowers are loved by bees and are medicinal. In my childhood in Poland it was a family tradition to collect Linden flowers (Lipa in Polish) for tea infusions, and drink them during cold winter months to strengthen our immune systems.

Linden trees have been inspirational for artists, writers and musicians, including a Polish poet Jan Kochanowski who wrote about Linden in 1584; in Australia Nick Cave’s song ‘Lime Tree Arbour’ led him to planting ‘Nick’s Lime Tree’ at the Victorian Royal Botanic Gardens.

This camera-less work was created by my experimental biochrome process, based on fusion of natural and photographic materials and subject to transformational power of organic processes.

You can read more about this story of Linden in the Mind of Plants publication, 2021.

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Dr Renata Buziak is a photomedia artist, researcher and educator. She is passionate about nature, art, science and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Through her biochrome art, and the ECO Harmony Compass she has developed, Renata helps people to reconnect with nature, and to create harmonies environments, at home or at work, that foster wellbeing, creativity and productivity, and create culture that deeply cares for the environment and each other.

Renata's signature biochrome art has been displayed in solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally. She has received several awards, and her work features on ABC TV Gardening Australia, and is held in private and public collections.
in 2022 Renata was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence on the Binna Burra Cultural Landscape in Qld, and the Art. Nature. Science. Program Director.

Gardening Australia My Garden Path, Series 27, Episode 19: "Artist Renata Buziak combines plants and photography to produce striking images of decay"
link: https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/how-to/my-garden-path-renata-buziak/9437966