I was thinking of what kind of tree as the "Suburbia Bonsai", and i am thinking to approach the Shanghai Botanic Garden for more references. The mulberry tree is great, but the size of the normal tree is inscaled to the site.
Here are two 'spin-off' ideas that have come to me when looking again at this diagram of the life-cycle of the silkworm.
With Philip's hat-pavilion questions still fluttering around in my mind, I found myself looking down on a wide brimmed hat. Highly detailed and made entirely of silk, it would represent the stages of this creature's development three dimensionally, with the magnificent five times life size moth, wings akimbo, as a front of hat flourish... (Who'd want to be a milliner?)...
Also, in an accompanying vision, the same illustration became a scale drawing for a limited edition automobile hub cap. (For vehicles traveling on the hypothetical 'Silk Road' perhaps?)...
The e-space lab project is exploring how internet connections between people in diverse urban and international contexts can enable a dialogue that helps make more meaningful a reciprocal representation of what the conditions of actual everyday life in different places really are. Many of the ideas, illusions and misrepresentations that shape our understanding of where and how other people live in places different from our own can fall away in this kind of dialogue, and also be replaced by a live and ongoing pattern of multiple alternative representations. The forms that we use range from the human voice (by Skype or phone), text, text messages, and images produced by digital cameras and mobile phones, video of course, and even to web pages and podcasts. We like to engage with these forms in a process of dialogue and exchange, using whatever resources are available, and exploring the potential of new tools as they come on stream, especially streaming video. As artists we are especially interested in the role the arts play in valuing practices and the human qualities that shape everyday life in the different places we find ourselves.
Bombyx mori's foreordination
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I was thinking of what kind of tree as the "Suburbia Bonsai", and i am thinking to approach the Shanghai Botanic Garden for more references. The mulberry tree is great, but the size of the normal tree is inscaled to the site.
This sounds very promising Shaw.
I'd be interested to learn more of this proposal as you develop it.
Do you mean that mulberry trees (or rather bushes) are themselves too small?
Do let me know the results of your enquiries at the Shanghai Botanic Garden.
Sean
Here are two 'spin-off' ideas that have come to me when looking again at this diagram of the life-cycle of the silkworm.
With Philip's hat-pavilion questions still fluttering around in my mind, I found myself looking down on a wide brimmed hat. Highly detailed and made entirely of silk, it would represent the stages of this creature's development three dimensionally, with the magnificent five times life size moth, wings akimbo, as a front of hat flourish... (Who'd want to be a milliner?)...
Also, in an accompanying vision, the same illustration became a scale drawing for a limited edition automobile hub cap. (For vehicles traveling on the hypothetical 'Silk Road' perhaps?)...
Sean
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