Video Diary: John Dyer has just completed a new set of ethnobotanical paintings exploring the harvest of the worlds 4th staple food the potato. This film is a video diary of John’s adventure and shows in great detail the length of time and research that goes into the paintings. Working as artist in residence for the international organisation CIP in Peru the video diary takes us from Lima to Cusco, Puno and Lake Titicaca 4000 meters up in the Andes. The video shows John’s search for his subject, the local people and cultures, landscape and footage of the paintings being realised as the harvest is gathered.

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The paintings will be exhibited at some point in the future together with other ethnobotanical works completed by the artist.

John traveled to the center of the potato world on an island 4000 meters up near the border with bolivia to explore the landscape, culture and people surrounding one of the world’s most important plants.

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