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	<title>Design News &#187; Plant Babies</title>
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		<title>The private life of plants explored in painting</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lauren Shantall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people regard plants as less sentient, less important than people, yet our existence is linked with them. Research shows that plants communicate with one another, respond to their environments and, most likely, interact with humans on the level of energetic transfer. It’s these largely unknown but intriguing characteristics that artist Lauren Shantall has captured in her exhibition ‘Plant Babies’, a series of plant portraits in acrylics that will run in the gallery space at The Yard Cape Town, located in the Silo District in the V&#38;A Waterfront, from 9 February until 9 March 2023. Shantall, who runs the award-winning communications agency Scout PR &#38; Social Media, is often called on as a public speaker focusing on lifestyle trends, and she points out that social media abounds with botanical styling, potplant hashtags, and masterclasses on how to style your house plants for the urban jungles of now. From a macro perspective, she is fascinated by this pervasive plant movement and what it says about our society. ‘It makes me happy when I see the plant world taking pride of place in urban homes and spaces, and how the two seem to be moving closer together,’ she says of the trend, [...]]]></description>
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