Sunday, February 22, 2015

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We finally had a meeting where people who knew what they were talking about talked about the relationship between art and environment - specifically, how art can be used as a tool for improving or at least staving off the decline of the environment.

Panelist Thomas Azwell covered Bioattenuation: the ways in which the environment itself maintains a steady state and cleans itself. He also spoke about how we can help the world to clean itself up, and the ways in which art can help this process along.

Panelist Marisha Farnsworth describes how community involvement can be used to identify sites and help keep things clean, pointing out that there are a myriad of site currently unrecognized that can be used as sites for cleaning things up...

Panelist Mark Brest van Kempen describes, of course, our own Raingarden sculpture, with a tour of past environmental art and his own previous projects, including Berkeley's own free space sculpture.

Most of the pictures here were taken by Peg Jackson, but I assume responsibility for all errors of attribution or captioning...



Your handsome correspondent (from the Back)



Panelist Marisha Farnsworth




Our panelists: Marisha Farnsworth, Thomas Azwell, Mark Brest van Kempen




Marisha Farnsworth answers a question




Marisha Farnsworth looks on




Thomas Azwell talks natural attenuation




Looking primordial




Mark Brest van Kempen attending to display matters




Attentive onlookers




The Raingarden Panel




Thomas Azwell speaks Raingarden



 

Thomas Azwell speaks even more eloquently




The newly painted Arts Benicia sign




Thomas Azwell talks Natural Attenuation




Ewww.... - Vermicomposting




More Ewww.... - Vermitea




Oil-Water separation - You need to know this





Marisha Farnsworth speaks...




Community based methods...




Community Composting




Spiral Jetty




Stonehenge on the cheap...




Christo's Encircled Islands




Ecological Gardens...




Thomas Azwell speaks Biomimicry




Manhattan... Wheatfield!




Our own Stonehenge




Everyone Chimes in...





 

Marisha Farnsworth sees the future...



Mark probably picks off bugs...




Visitors check out water input.../




A curious reader...




Peg takes good photos...




Larnie points out soil types...




Our panelists discuss Raingarden design...




Marisha Farnsworth with my ugly flash shadow...




Natural picture of Mark Brest van Kempen




Thomas Azwell shows Andy Goldsworthy as "artistic" example...




Mark Brest van Kempen's Free Space




Hanging Plants...




Thomas Azwell talks Pollution Catchers




A question from the audience...




Our Mayor Makes a Point...




Larnie points out the outstanding Qualities of Our Soil...




Bodil with a question...




Marisha Farnsworth Chatting...




Garden in Context



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