Katie Hart Potapoff

Katie Hart Potapoff (she/her), a fourth-generation Canadian settler, is an artist, writer, and researcher in Scotland. Through iterative material and place-based encounters, Katie employs methods comprised of what she describes as explicit ambiguity, which provides an intimate and attentive perspective through which to consider sited practice. In the context of her practice research, Katie is interested in the speculative nature of ambiguity, which is performed not as a provocation but as an invitation to reconsider human relationships with our more-than-human-kin.

Gathering [Below the] Surface

Offered through interwoven poetry, prose, and visual images, this response reflects on the experience of Dan Drage’s artist-led walk through his exhibition, Gathering Surface, at the St Andrews Botanic Garden on 7 September 2023. This response documents an embodied, and…