Category: art
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Bio-diversity
A meditation on plants, picking up on some earlier threads of vegetated abstractions, whether they be sculptural or metaphorical, aesthetic or functional. First is the idea of global warming, and it’s impacts on the biological functioning of plants. While often reported as a purely negative or neutral, the shifts of hardiness zone allows for greater…
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Tree | TREE | tree
As we have seen, trees occupy a litany of places in our senses and psyche – and just beg to be used as fodder for sculptural and architectural abstraction. Some recent adaptations of the theme take on some interesting forms, due to the use of material (a future topic) form, and function. Three examples of…
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Madness/Genius?
You decide… what can I say… Taking the idea of ‘playing with your food’ to, I guess, ‘healthy’ extremes, photographer Carl Warner has created landscapes using only food items, photographed and digitally manipulating pastoral nature scenes. Whereas broccoli is a no-brainer for a tree analog, who would’ve pictured pink salmon ocean water lapping on to…