ART,
SCIENCE and GARDENING?
You may
feel the link between art, science and gardening is a tenuous one.
You may also feel that this is no new idea. The truth is both! My
intent is to provide a helpful guide which can help you create the
environment to experience great living! This is no joke. I
have been pursuing the ideal art form since I attended the Kansas
City Art Institute in 85. The form, I learned was tied to my
participation in the process. Steel, Bronze, Clay, Handmade
Paper, Graphic Design, Printmaking, process and more process. I
quickly learned that the wonder of art is in the creating
rather than in the object created...not a big concept, simply that
creative process could potentially be unified with living patterns
as a daily process.
NATURE and
NURTURE
The epitomy of my personal artistic values reguarding art always
seemed to resonate with the concepts of nature and nurture.
Nature vs. Nurture is the established compliments of life,
that is the struggle in thought about the motivations of life
itself - nature as an external immutable force or
nurture as the adaptive response. This can be
paralled to the basic divisions of religion and science, and as
applied to philosopy of art, creates a dichotomy between the
creator and the thing created. While I do encourage
individuals to pursue knowledge of art and craft process, the
focus of this site is obviously on gardening as a vehicle to unite
the creators and the creations. Nature nurtures nature....
Gardening or better yet Art Farming is the experiencial creative
medium which through nurturing, nurtures the creator naturally!
Art Farming is a beautiful circular process of knowledge and
experience, the product, a edible source of wonder!
ART
FARMING
Preparation including material lists, specifications, locations,
logistics, budgets, schedules and much more are imperative to
effective execution of a creative process. Creativity can be
facilitated with an exstensive database of information to draw
upon. Expanding the potential options when problem solving,
expands the potential creatve solution. This means often learning
about basic chemical processes or possibly discoveries in other
fields such as physics and biology. It is also important to
have fun, relax and engage the all the senses.
YOU ARE THE
FIRST PIONEER
Reguardless of how much you read and research, one of the most
exciting aspects of Art Farming (gardening) is the uniqueness of
the individual experience. Every location, even the house next
door, is completely different from all others. Physical
orientation of structures, local fluctuations in climate and
micro-climates are everywhere. PH can change from one side
of the house to the other. Each new planting is a new
experience and so intuitve response is always
necessary.
LEARN as much as you can AND then FORGET everything, simply engage the site you plan to work with. Listen to the sounds, discover the insects which thrive, search out animals, watch the water flow across a site in the rain - Get into the site, sleep there naked if you have to, but try and understand the landscape like your trying to understand the soft wispers of your greatgrandmother whose last faint word hold the key to the safty deposit box which contains you and all you offsprings inheritance.
As this site develops I will include a gallery of art devoted to
garden and landscape, ecology and exchange. Thank you for visiting
my green guide.