Deconstructed herbariums. Between botany and abstraction

Mascia Premoli proposes a new educational path for the International School of Illustration in Sarmede, built around the idea of the herbarium.
Her workshops are an invitation to experiment through artistic techniques and materials, the outcome of unique research supported by thirty years of professional experience.
At the core lies creative thinking, which finds in the “deconstructed herbarium” a way to emerge, take shape, and endure.

An experiential workshop designed for adults, developed over two days of creative research around the idea of the herbarium as an open, unfinished form—where herbaria retain their essence as collections, yet the process becomes central: deconstructing to recompose, seeing the invisible, giving shape to gesture.
A space-time for experimenting, engaging in dialogue with natural matter, and allowing oneself to be surprised.
A herbarium that does not preserve, but transforms. A herbarium that expands into transparencies, shadows, imprints, blind drawings, and greens that never dry.
Two days to build a personal plant archive, through observation, experimentation, and visual composition. An opportunity to immerse oneself in botany as a visual act, in collecting as narration, in the herbarium as a creative space.

“You do not collect to preserve, but to remember that everything changes form.”