Posters in the form of comics. Visuals showing histories, presents and futures of co-living across humans-plants-pollinators-tools with almonds, strawberries and red clover. Made and risoprinted by Saskia Gullstrand based on a collaboration with and accompanied by texts written by Åsa Ståhl, Li Jönsson and Kristina Lindström. 

A collaboration in the Un/Making Studio published as part of the online After Progress-exhibition. 

Online exhibition directed by Dr Martin Savransky (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Dr Craig Lundy (London Metropolitan University). 

Different reports, predictions and speculations often tell us about a future that seems to be exhausted. In this project, we have engaged in the specific prediction of a thin future, concerning the loss of pollinators (IPBES 2019) and along with that how many ecosystem services and more that we take for granted today are radically affected.

Knowledge and facts in reports and scientific papers are of utter need and importance, but might be hard to access and grasp in everyday life. In an attempt to move beyond and enrich polarized responses of game-over or techno-fixes potentially inflicted by such factful stories, we have created a series of graphical visualisations that attempt to tell thick and complex stories of plant-pollinator-relationships at stake. Through crossing poetic forms of comics, detailed biological information and important natureculture relationships the posters display red clover, strawberries, almonds. How these strips connect or narrate as one whole, or form a more wordy and worldly story is not given - they can be read in many different ways. More particularly, they weave narratives with present and absent plants, insects, humans and tools for pollination together with past, present and potential future.