By Lisa Kelly
The Rizzeria: Sydney, Australia, 2009
Pages: Booklet - 24 pages; 10 postcards (double-sided)
Dimensions: 4" x 5"
Cover: Soft
Binding: Both booklet and postcards are bound to a single cover with rubberbands
Process: Stencil printing
Color: Brown, blue, and teal ink
Eidition size: 100
ISBN: none

Lisa Kelly is a Sydney-based artist whose ongoing work with plants and ecological processes in an urban setting is meticulous and thorough. Her approach is reflected in this wonderfully produced booklet documenting her project Wild Sown Understory. She describes the project:

Wild Sown Understorey is a seeding action for the front yard of 135 Union St, West Brunswick. In February green manure crop seeds were cast, and the grass left to grow until the close of the wBST. The potential for a shaggy transformation of suburban ground will lay dormant or flourish according to rainfall, becoming a simultaneous ten-week weather index. Using the methods of natural farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, the project plays out between disturbance to a lawn-scape, land remediation and productivity, the absence of wildness, probable failure and climate change.

The book was printed on The Rizzeria, a stencil printer, in Sydney. It has a single cover that holds a book on one end, and 10 postcards on the other. The postcards document the progress of the project with a photo on one side, and a report of the weather conditions during the week on the other .

About The Rizzeria:The Rizzeria is collectively owned and operated by a bunch of self publishers and print makers in Sydney, Australia.