Wood and resin necklaces by WoodAllGood on Etsy
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Reading the Landscape Olaf Otto Becker
The irony of this is, even as so many entities a clearing land legally and illegally, others are rushing to create the illusion of nature by building vast parks and ecological preserves in urban areas. Among the most majestic is Gardens by the Bay, which charges admission and looks like a set from Logan’s Run. The park’s supertrees are crazy-looking vertical gardens that generate electricity from solar panels, regulate the temperature with its constructed canopy of plant life, collect rainwater, and more. In many ways, they mimic the trees being so aggressively cleared around the world.
Yet as Becker reminds us, “The inventions of the best architects in the world cannot replace destroyed habitats and the complex ecosystem.”
Text from the article: All the Urban Green in the World Can’t Replace Our Forests
(Source: archatlas)
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Part 1 of 2 of installation photographs from the Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Photographs by Blair Prentice (iheartmyart).
Exhibition, Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum, February 20–May 24, 2015
See Part 2 of the photographs from the exhibition here.
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The exhibition, Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, collects over sixty paintings and sculptures by the artist of African American men and women that use the artistic conventions of traditional European portraiture.
Wiley endeavors to rewrite the history of art by coopting the styles typically relegated for the dominantly white elite and infusing it with the oppressed.
His work is an expression of an age where black urban culture has been looked to, in art and music, as the source for inspiration. Wiley interestingly turns that process on a head by reversing this process and instead coopts their style of the elite to reframe our perception of black male and female figures and the role they play in our history.
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Installation photographs by Blair Prentice (iheartmyart)
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