Assembling some links related to Trees, Woods and Forests: Jen Clarke is doing a PhD at the University of Aberdeen's Anthropology Department "tentatively" entitled Working between art and forestry in Scotland http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/staff/details.php?id=r06jc8 The British Museum had an excellent small display entitled Imaging the Forest http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/all_current_exhibitions/imagining_the_forest.aspx I recently came across an interesting web site, http://www.wikiwoods.org/ Always... Continue Reading →
Xavier Cortada’s approach to exotic invasive species
Xavier Cortada, an artist working on projects all over the world, and based in Miami, has developed Hanging Gardens. a participatory work addressing the issue of exotic invasive species. He says, “For ‘Hanging Gardens,’ I propose to create vertical gardens… comprised not of species we want to grow, but of trees we want to kill. The installations... Continue Reading →
