Dispersals by Jessica J. Lee
This collection of essays and musings skips across the map and timeline of Jessica’s life. She traces and connects the nomenclature, evolution and her memories of different plants as markers in her life. Equally personal and universal: she returns to moments in her mother’s neat garden, the weeds she champions outside her urban home, considers the trade history of the tea we drink and retastes the citrus fruits that were her first sweet cravings. She also celebrates the plants that have become seeds of hope for future biodiversity security.
Her professional curiosity and knowledge are blended perfectly with her personal reflections, understanding her Welsh and Taiwanese heritage and the homes she has made across the world, like a seed taking root.
Location: Bath city centre