Author Archives: Tamara Gubernat

Here’s the video intro: I’ve continued revising the text: In My Backyard The magnolia has been in my backyard since before I can remember. We grew up together over the years. It was an early bloomer, showing some the first … Continue reading →

The terrariums continue to grow, still outside a few feet away from where they were dug.   I’m still on the fence about the best format to tell this story, a series of printed out images with text or screen … Continue reading →

Feb 14, 2018 It was warm afternoon. The ground has thawed somewhat and even shows some promise of spring. I used the shovel to extract a fragment of the garden to put in the two containers as terrariums. Feb 20, … Continue reading →

This week I assembled and reformatted existing documentation of the backyard. One of the challenges in working with this material is that when documenting I wasn’t envisioning a specific final output so the aspect ratio of the video and photos … Continue reading →

Our first WW11 meeting was very inspiring and left me with lots to think about… While generally positively received, my initial project idea raised very valid concerns about legal considerations and permission from the gallery space to bring in substances … Continue reading →

As a lifelong resident of Greenpoint, Brooklyn I have a conflicted relationship with soil. Greenpoint has some of the highest levels of lead in New York City and testing the soil literally “in my backyard” revealed the shocking results of … Continue reading →