Jackie Brookner makes “Biosculptures”.
She describes these as ‘living sculptures…plant based systems that clean polluted water, integrating ecological revitalization with the conceptual, metaphorical and aesthetic capacities of sculpture.”
One such project is called “The Gift of Water”. The town of Grossenhain, near Dresden in Germany, built a new public swimming complex in which the water used is [...]
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Sculptures of Living Processes – Jackie Brookner
A Monument To Nature Destroyed
Painstakingly over more than a decade, Israeli artist Shai Zakai has created a monument to man’s interaction with his environment and the consequences – overwhelmingly negative – of that interaction.
“Forest Tunes: The Library” is an installation consisting of collected items, photographs, video, text and a book.
The centerpiece of The Library is a collection of items [...]
