1and1equals3

1+1= 3 Care Collective

Application for the Residency at Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage.

Jarman’s work and his garden, cultivated as a place of solitude, creativity, and love, is what draws us to this residency. We consider Jarman’s cottage and garden a third collaborator: an entity that reshapes our individual approaches into something neither of us could create alone. The residency’s value resides in the time and isolation to discover what our collective practice becomes in an unfamiliar place.

Vancouver, Canada, June 30, 2026

Andy Hoff & Karin Schmidlin

1+1=3 Care Collective

Andy Hoff & Karin Schmidlin

Independently we are a visual artist/writer and a designer/educator. As a collective, we occupy a third space. The 1+1= 3 Care Collective grew from our relationship as life partners and as a shared practice of care and attention in a changing world. We work through climate-futures and envisioning agency inside environmental crises. Our practices include illustration, comics, animation, photography, storytelling, performance, design, and gardening.

Andy Hoff (she/her)

Andy Hoff lives and works next to the Salish Sea on the traditional, ancestral, and never-ceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada. She is an artist and writer whose practice takes multiple forms: projection, animation, comics, ceramics, sound, interaction, design, and performance. Her work centres on themes including neurodivergence, motherhood, other-than-human collaborations, and speculative world-building. In working with and through multiple media, Andrea aims to explore the potential for new communities and narratives to arise—ones that move, multiply, and mutate across disciplinary boundaries. For the past five years, she has been collaborating with teens to create comics about the future and just finished her Ph.D.

Andy's Website

Karin Schmidlin (she/her)

Karin Schmidlin is a designer and educator based in Vancouver, Canada. For nearly two decades, she has been teaching and designing learning experiences across universities, art & design schools, and professional programs, working at the intersection of information design, technology, and complexity. Her background in theatre and performing arts, developed in Zurich, Switzerland, shapes how she approaches design as an embodied practice, attentive to presence, gesture, and the felt experience of an audience or a learner. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on student agency, exploring how young learners can be supported in navigating the socio-technical challenges of a rapidly changing world, from the climate crisis to the ethics of emerging technologies.

Karin's Website

Rocks found around the beaches of Ontario and British Columbia, Canada

Jarman, as he writes in Modern Nature, saw his garden as a way to explore the rich landscape of Dungeness as well as an inward journey, what he called "an archeology of the soul”. Responding to his approach, we want to test our own practice by developing a layered map of the site as well as the emotional and embodied experience of being there. In practical terms our mapping incorporates the physical terrain,, Jarman's own excavated interior as we encounter it in his writing and garden, and our own reflections in dialogue with each other and with the solitude of the place.