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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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