endemia | valletta

The sea from the balcony runs pink and soft and pearly under the clouds, shimmering and dancing with the pigeons that coo and cackle from their perches. The petals of some of the flowers open and close with the evening, speaking in spiral or as a claw, sometimes wagging their dicks out from beneath the folding door that holds them inside until their time comes.

This project aimed to work with and encourage local residents to engage with their surroundings, incorporate urban sketching into their weekly routines and explore local flora near Valletta. It ran in three parts: a workshop series where Malta residents joined together to learn about local plant life and sketch green spaces in the city of Valletta, Malta; my own urban nature journal; and a mapping element where each sketching location was documented and displayed at a final event to celebrate the end of the project.

The project was conducted through the InnovAIR residency at the Valletta Design Cluster in March 2023.