Fireflies attract
Earlier this week, my friend Barbara and I headed out to a meadow just before dusk to meet with Sara, a firefly expert, and Michelle, a fellow firefly fan. Barbara and I are working on an extended project about this place, and she has made many gorgeous pictures of fireflies here, so we thought it’d [...]
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Kelly Poe
This past semester, I co-taught a class on “word and the photographic image” with photographer Barbara Bosworth. The course was wonderful, populated mostly by photography undergraduates, many of whom are also aspiring writers on the side.
We included more than a smattering of landscape work. And one student, a guy named Sean, was inspired by that [...]
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Dressing for Climate Change
Fashion is my bete-noir, or at least one of them. While I am a huge fan of good design, high fashion makes me recoil. It’d be easy to attribute this to pique, for I’m a shape and height (and now an age) largely ignored by those who design clothing. But that’s not it.
It’s that high [...]
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Artful seeds
Ask and ye shall receive….
Thanks to Jena for this link to the Hudson Valley Seed Library. The folks there combine a love of heirloom seeds with one for local art, a pairing that results in these whimsical “art packs.” Each packet is designed by an artist in their area, and contains fresh seeds. They have [...]
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Plant Planning, Part Two
The more I’ve been thinking about how I regard plants, and how my landscape architect friends do, I’ve realized that the difference is not simply akin to painter versus installation artist, as I proposed in the last entry. It’s also that we’re privileging different parts of the plants.
Roots, stems, leaves/ Flowers, fruits, seeds
Roots, stems, leaves/ [...]
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Eating Local Art
One of my former students, Jena Duncan, has a new blog chronicling her art efforts around eating locally. “Jena Performing Local” began a week or so ago, as she embarked on a 100-mile diet. She’s recording her food purchases, yearnings, frustrations, and the like, as well as the questions and problems that this new diet, begun [...]
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Not an AVATAR Review: Technology and Environmental Art
So I went to Avatar last weekend. I figured I’d enjoy the story fairly well, but really, I’d gone simply to see it—to decide for myself if the much-touted cinematic sea-change was all that. And it was. Even without the benefit of 3-D, the movie was visually astounding. Which is probably why the thing I [...]
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