This project attempts a sinestesic approximation to  emerging chronicles and images*** amidst the context of interviews celebrated with voluntary people in regard of appropriated/adopted/brought to mind Potus plants under their care.  

 

Interviews take place at people's place or workplace, where their Potus plant is also to be found. The conversations would be recorded or written down. Photos of the plant are taken, mostly with their caretaker; in some cases they specifically ask not to be included in the photos. In other situations, contact with the interviewee is made overseas via Skype or post-mail. If all participants are physically present - interviewee, interviewer & Potus plant -  we would usually start or finish the interview by playing a match of "Dominotus".

 

Dominotus is an altered design of a domino game in which no grouped points, hence no numbers are included.

          

                 A project for an installation includes and displays all of the above described features plus an animated presentation of the interviews; the scope of it is to explore the multiple topography of images, words and sounds taking course during the narrated chronicles, focusing mainly on its contradictions and addressing its paradoxical aspects better than those conclusive.

 

 

***These circulating imagery and tales related to the Potus don't seem to emerge from any specific source and they haven't made an appearance in any specific moment; simply put, they are "in the air" and in everyone's mouth but put to look for its origins, it is improbable that we end up with any certain information. This stories are not short of contagion; people already knew them or someone said something about the plant and someone else would repeat it. The Potus plant belongs already in countless aspects to the extended, collective region known as "commonplace": it constitutes itself in another member - with well earned degrees - of the enormous body of things that we use to take for granted and we consequently end up by not noticing at all.