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In my backyard – Week 4

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

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Readings from ‘Replenishing the Earth’ and Hyperallergic article on Swoon retrospective

Hello Wonder Women! The first link is the pages I have scanned – excerpts from Wangari Maathai’s ‘Replenishing the Earth’ for shared reading. the first two spreads are separate excerpts, and then Chapter Four ‘the Power of Trees’. Would love … Continue reading

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week 4 update

UPDATE: I fixed the polygons on the skirt, now this is an accurate representation of the data model v3 from Sharon De La Cruz on Vimeo. data skirt v1 from Sharon De La Cruz on Vimeo.   I finally figured … Continue reading

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Environmental artists – forward from Midori

http://marionwilson.com/ http://www.marymattingly.com/ http://www.ellendriscoll.net/ https://www.vanceartworks.com/ http://marymiss.com/ particularly her “water” related projects http://melchin.org/oeuvre/art21-chin and his particular work, Playdirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV71FeUgFjk Midori Yoshimoto, Ph.D. Gallery Director/ Associate Professor of Art History Art Department New Jersey City University 2039 Kennedy Blvd. Jersey City, NJ 07305 … Continue reading

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Feb 14 Ark

Yesterday was a beautiful day with the sun warming every surface. The structure of the Ark will be completed by this weekend, even though I must move inside to avoid the coming rains.

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Ark Project Progress

Week 3 Gaia Ark Project Tuesday, February 13, 2018. The weather today is more agreeable than yesterday and I think it might get all the way up to 38 degrees, therefore, I can begin working outside today. Today I am … Continue reading

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WW11 Week 3 references

At “State of the DysUnion” multi-media installation, artist Joyce Yu-Jean Lee shared amazing resource “newseum” a website that posts front page of the daily newspapers across the globe:http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

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Week 3 Progress on Ark Project

Week 2  February 7, 2018 It’s a strange sensation taking the train again to Jersey City. In the past, my journey involved walking 1.5 miles to the train station in Metuchen, taking the train to Newark. Changing to the PATH … Continue reading

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Visit to the Meadowlands

Yesterday it was supposed to start raining in the afternoon. The rain started as soon as I parked my car at theRichard W. DeKorte Park in the Meadowlands. I was visiting to grab a couple of buckets of water for … Continue reading

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In my backyard – Feb 11

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

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