Viewers experience the landscape at eye-level by placing their heads within the terrarium-like structures. The experience is multi-sensory and immersive, with muffled sounds and smells of earth and moss. Viewers find themselves in intimate proximity to soil, plants, and each other, sharing the same air. I continue to develop this series of works which I …
Some artists further public art to incorporate an influential ability that shifts and changes perceptions by provoking questions and generating conversations to alter political beliefs (Palmer, J. 2018, p.76). This can be seen within Landmark: Footprints (2001) (Image 7) by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. Their work explores political issues by presenting them externally from …
In 2018 artist John Newling spent 81 consecutive days writing letters to Nature. The letters echo the sentiment of a series of letters to a loved one but with a voice of humanity attempting to come to terms with its relationship to nature. The letters take you on a journey through the history of agriculture, …
Trees as actors in history, the migration of flowers, and medicinal plants testifying to neo-extractivism – these are some of the themes that Uriel Orlow pursues in his research-based art. Concrete circumstances and developments invariably form the basis of his multi-layered, multi-media works. In recent years his attention has mainly focused on entanglements between the …
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