Wild cabbage

Wild Cabbage: Second Performance, 2024

The second iteration of the Wild Cabbage series deepens an ongoing exploration of migration, hybridity, and vegetal identity through the figure of Brassica oleracea — the wild cabbage. Rooted in ecological inquiry and mythopoeic storytelling, the performance traces the imagined temporal and geographic journey of the plant from the Sicilian coastline to the untamed urban edges of Dublin 8.

Performed as a dialogue between two textile artefacts — a hand-manipulated cloak of antique cotton, dyed and embroidered to evoke the cabbage’s layered history, and a sculptural walkig stick formed from an Irish broom branch interwoven with Irish, Italian, and reclaimed yarns — the work invites reflection on the porousness of botanical, cultural, and political boundaries.

The Wild Cabbage, once domesticated and multiplied into countless cultivars across Europe, reasserts its wildness by taking root in marginal spaces. Its trajectory resists static notions of nativeness, proposing instead a model of ecological becoming shaped by dispersal, adaptation, and disguise.

Wild Cabbage: Second Performance enacts a ritual of vegetal transformation — a narrative of travelling, shedding, and rewilding — questioning dominant ecological hierarchies and offering a soft resistance to the binary of native and non-native.

Performance at the GalleryX, Dublin. Featured in the Dublin Inquire newspaper.

The Wild Cabbage cloak,  2024, manipulated, dyed, and embroidered antique cotton.
The Travel, 2024, Branch of the Irish Broom tree woven with Irish, Italian, and recycled wool.