Ackroyd’s and Harvey’s residency at KHOJ is framed by an on-going enquiry into processes of organic growth and the photographic properties of living plant material. By capturing complex images in emerging blades of barley, they aim to create compositions of a subtly elusive kind through the controlled production of the pigment chlorophyll. 

A second work responds to the architecture of the inner courtyard at KHOJ they planted the vertical enclosed walls with barley seeds transforming the space into a green haven – a breathing space within the increasingly hot and polluted city.