Alicia Escott: Interdisciplinary & Environmental Artist

Art can take us on journeys that we never would have experienced otherwise. Sometimes, it can take the artists themselves on journeys through the creative process, and they end up with final pieces that they would never have made otherwise. 

Alicia Escott took on a project with the Mission Blue butterfly, deciding to grow native wildflowers that the species adore and use them in sculptures. 

“I ended up with these bags which take on a really bodily shape and can be really relatable…they’re entire little micro ecosystems in their own right.”

These sculptures and their unique form is due in part to the plastic they’re contained in, which Alicia took from the packaging of rugs. 

“You know, plastic is a part of nature. It's been molecularly altered. It's extremely destructive to us and to most species as we know them. But having the plants in there felt like it was like this really regenerative, hopeful moment coming out of apocalypse.”

Although Alicia’s original plans to show her work were canceled because of the pandemic, these pieces were still able to send a strong message even if there was no audience to see them blooming. 

“They ended up blooming in my backyard during the pandemic, which was…so powerful and also spoke to the things that were being cultivated in the deep, dark soil of the pandemic…”

Check out more of Alicia’s work on their website.

A film by Bettina Hanna.