Ortoportrait
| Ortoportrait | |
|---|---|
| Name | ortoportrait |
| Location | Heesterveld Community Garden |
| Date | 2026/07/21 |
| Time | 15:30-18:30 |
| PeopleOrganisations | Agnese Smaldone |
| Type | HDSC2026 |
| Web | Yes |
| No | |
This event is only for participants of the Summer Camp 2026 and not open to the public, want to join us: check the HDSC2026 Clouds to Commons Public Program
This outdoor drawing workshop held in the Heesterveld Community Garden moves from observation to making — a process of slow, embodied attention. Participants engage in extended contemplation of a chosen plant, guided by written instructions and questions. The host will offer both scientific (ecology, morphology, phenology, physiology) and imaginative/speculative guidance. Participants shift between these two modes as they draw, at their own pace, for the length of the session. Drawing instruments are handmade by the host, assembled from recycled and organic found materials from the garden. The resulting portraits of their plants will draw a collective map of the garden.
Timeline:
Total duration: 2–3 hours
- Arrival in the garden, short introduction
- Walk through the garden, choosing a plant
- Participants sit down, drawing materials are handed out
- Observation and drawing, guided by written questions, no fixed pace or endpoint within the session
Access note:
- No technical skills or prior knowledge needed. Seated activity. Pillows or blankets are welcome.
Additional notes:'
- Location. The workshop takes place in a community garden next to Bullewijk metro station in Amsterdam, a 2-minute walk from the metro.
- A house adjacent to the garden gives participants access to a toilet, drinking water, and anything else a household can offer.
- A bar is nearby.
- The garden has big tables with benches; pillows or blankets can be added for comfort.
Bio:
Agnese Smaldone is an Italian artist based in Amsterdam. In their drawings, paintings, sculptures, and textiles, they reference the psychological interior and the systems that attempt to contain it, exploring how incompleteness is not a flaw of the self but its basic condition. What emerges borrows appearance from a pre-constructed system, only to disable it and return to a pre-functional, “magical” state.