Posted in Plants Elsewhere, Projects from others, tagged art, celeste ng, cleveland, installation, polka dots, trees, yayoi kusama on 23 July 2018| 1 Comment »
Yayoi Kusama’s artwork is joyous, full of polka dots and mirrored rooms. But I didn’t know she had anything to do with urban plants until writer Celeste Ng tweeted about seeing “these trees, dolled up in their polka-dot finest in honor of a Yayoi Kusama exhibit” at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Celeste Ng kindly gave us permission to share her photos on our humble blog. Thank you, Celeste! Readers, please check out her Twitter: @pronounced_ing and her latest novel, Little Fires Everywhere.
Posted in Hawaii plants, Projects from others, tagged art, hawaii, honolulu, mango, photography, pictures, trees, wood, woodworking on 17 January 2015| 4 Comments »
Amazing how much you can learn about mango trees at the Kaka‘ako Farmers Market here in Honolulu. While vegetable shopping this morning, I stopped to chat with Jen Homcy about Foundwood, her woodworking company that creates cutting boards out of reclaimed local hardwood. She took the time to share some knowledge about the wood she uses, including how the curl gets in the curly mango.
Posted in Berlin plants, Projects from others, tagged Berlin, collecting, exploring, flowers, nature, trees, video on 22 November 2013| 5 Comments »
Two different urban researchers, charmingly named of Field Office, made a video about looking at Berlin plants. It reminds me of how, when I arrive in a new place, I suddenly don’t recognize most of the trees, leaf shapes, anything really except a few international plants like lawn grass and dandelions.
Posted in Plants worldwide, Projects from others, tagged children, forest, participation, talking with plants, trees, video, woods on 14 November 2013| 2 Comments »
A child of the city, now grown, decided to face her discomfort with the forest. Because this particular forest was a foreign one, where the trees spoke Estonian, Berlin-based artist Nadin Reschke asked local schoolchildren to help her communicate with them. In this video, the children teach her words for talking to trees: words soft as moss.
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, lights, moon, trees on 19 July 2013| 4 Comments »
The tree branches above the red-checkered tablecloths of this beer garden were filled of floating full moons. They reflected on the water of the Schlachtensee after our swim. Berliners can be thankful for lakes and plants right in the city borders that don’t feel at all urban. Still, we can’t seem to resist augmenting reality a bit…
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged japan, kyoto, new year, paper, trees on 2 January 2013| Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year! These trees at Heian shrine are carrying the fortunes and hopes of hundreds of prayerful visitors.
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, Plants worldwide, Questions & discussion, tagged city, ecology, hurricane sandy, New Haven, New York, sandy, subway, trees, weather on 31 October 2012| Leave a Comment »
The damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, as documented above by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, included flooding in the South Ferry subway station in lower Manhattan, home to the lovely tree installation by the Starn brothers we reported on four years ago. Back then, the station looked like this:
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, community garden, gardening, Kreuzberg, trees on 4 August 2012| 2 Comments »
In the middle of Berlin, in the Prinzessinnengarten community garden in Kreuzberg, a bar that feels like it’s in the woods.
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