Seed, a collaborative exhibition, 2025
Seed is a collaborative exhibition of work by Hannah Perry and Jordan Delzell exploring ecology, spirituality and models of mutual aid.
We use this exhibition as an opportunity to explore the interconnections between our respective artistic practices. Both artists and farmers, we split our time between working in the studio and on the farm. We acknowledge that these practices influence and seep into one another, both ultimately rooted in a spiritual kinship with the ecological world. By displaying our work together we find commonality and divergences, gathering seeds of inspiration for future collaboration.
Also on display are the beginnings of an intentional collaboration, where handmade paper incorporating seeds and seed catalogs (made by Jordan) are used as the base for paintings (created by Hannah) inspired by research into seed ownership, seed libraries, soil composition, adaptation, and symbiosis. Through this collaborative exhibition and future collaborations, we embody alternatives to individualism, and instead embrace the mutualism we observe in ecological relationships.
20% of sales from this show+ raffle donations were donated to the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, please visit this link to learn more about how to support their work.
Hannah Perry (she/her)
Hannah (b.1993) works in the mediums of paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, songs and landwork. Her practice weaves symbolic narratives rooted in ecological research and observation, exploring the interconnection between the natural world, storytelling, and the Divine. Drawing from a personal mythology, Perry engages metaphor as a primary language—using it to reflect on natural teachings such as adaptation and symbiosis as models for regenerative, collective healing.
Influenced by the resilience of both people and plant life in urban environments, Perry’s work is deeply informed by her role as an urban farmer in New York City, a practice centered on food and land sovereignty, care, and reciprocity. Her paintings and sculptures interrogate the notion of individualism by reminding us of our collective presence in ecological balance.
Guided by spiritual ecology, this body of work reflects on the seed as both symbol and substance—holding resilience, memory, and the cyclical rhythms of life and renewal. Each piece acts as a vessel—a visual seed—offering quiet acts of defiance and paths toward healing.
Jordan Delzell (she/her)
As an artist and farmer I embody regenerative, anti-consumerist and low-waste practices. My process begins by attending to what is in excess, or what has been ignored. Materials like paper, gray water, plant fiber, eggshells and lint are blended together, creating a pulp that alchemizes ecological and domestic waste. I explore the potential of this material, creating sheets of paper, as well as sculptural tools that explore alternatives to human-centered material and ecological relationships.
My practice is driven by a strong kinship with the more-than human world and intentions to do less harm. Sending materials to the landfill creates feelings of guilt, sadness and longing for something more–like a relationship ended too soon. I grow my own food and often utilize farm-grown material in my artwork to disinvest from consuming habits, increase the organic matter in my work, and embed it with the potential to feed the soil and grow life. Recent work uses lint, eggshells, old cosmetics, seeds and dried flowers accumulated in my home as material for drawing and collage, further illustrating maps of circularity that guide my process in the garden and the studio.
