This fall I was one of 8 artists selected to create a short projection for #dublinwinterlights, shown on the General Post Office (GPO) through the month of December. Today is the last day.
The theme of the festival was "Grow." My piece, "We the Weeds," aka "Travels of the Lesser Centaury," is about 3 plants that originated across the pond, traveled via human activity to North America, and naturalized here -- clover, dandelion (as seen in the stills), and the centaury plant, encountered in the Rigolets/Honey Island Swamp/Pearlington area. My curiosity about this plant seeded 😉 the idea. A video of the show is in the linktr.ee in bio - thanks @walkwithcarlos for posting! Music by the incomparable @mcmurray.alex! Posting a version where you can hear the music, soon!
With this project I've learned alot about contrast and communication, lessons to use in a new year. Reading "The Light Eaters" 🌱🌿🌞🤯 A profound reset in thinking about the earth.
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#dublinwinterlights #centaury #dandelion #clover #travelingplants
1 week ago
Details from the #nolawildflowermeadow in December. Seeds, seeds, and plants thriving from an October planting, with special guests “bits of plastic trash” hiding under the masses of frogfruit 🐸 that we pulled out.
2 weeks ago
#nolawildflowermeadow work afternoon -✨✨
Please consider joining us on this coming Sunday, Dec 15th between 2pm and 5ish - we’d love help with some vigorous raking and clearing of aggressive frogfruit and weedy things, and I’ll bring drinks and snacks. Prepping the meadow for an eventual winter chopping and the spreading of more seeds for spring.
It’s a long row to hoe, as grandma used to say!
images - the swamp sunflowers in the rain garden this past October
2100 Leon C. Simon Blvd.
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#nolaraingarden #nolawildflowermeadow
#gentillyresiliencedistrict #gentilly @waterleadersinstitute
4 weeks ago