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‘The Garden’, 2010 - 2012 Inkjet print on cotton paper, 98,3x80cm Handmade books, Ink jet print, 15x10cm ‘The garden is the art of artificially producing a natural landscape in which we summarise all the beauties of Flora conceived by a particular culture or civilisation. Therefore, dominates a dynamic relationship between the natural and the artificial.’ Raffaele Milani ‘The garden, if interpreted as a representation of the world, teaches us, perhaps better than any other art form, what is the ideal of the world in which Man was formed at a certain time.’ Joseph Addison ‘The Garden’ is an open research project, begun in New York in 2010. The project explores the creation of natural areas within the city, looking at the public space as an expression of the host society. Parks and gardens have been designed throughout history so as to imitate nature, serving at the same time as a refuge for citizens and as a mirror of the various societies which have followed each other over the centuries. The photographs are shot from the outside, adopting the democratic view of the urban mass. The fences that mark the park boundaries, in the foreground, provide hints on the civilisation that designed the garden, while in the far ground the natural space appears. Often, behind the thickets of branches and plants, the shapes of buildings and other urban constructions may be made out, anchoring the natural elements to these places in the chaotic yet structured metropolitan setting. Alongside the photographs of three different New York parks there are three little artist’s books which create a visual link between the inside and the outside of the gardens.

‘The Garden’, 2010 - 2012
Inkjet print on cotton paper, 98,3x80cm
Handmade books, Ink jet print, 15x10cm



‘The garden is the art of artificially producing a natural landscape in which we summarise all the beauties of Flora conceived by a particular culture or civilisation. Therefore, dominates a dynamic relationship between the natural and the artificial.’
Raffaele Milani

‘The garden, if interpreted as a representation of the world, teaches us, perhaps better than any other art form, what is the ideal of the world in which Man was formed at a certain time.’
Joseph Addison

‘The Garden’ is an open research project, begun in New York in 2010. The project explores the creation of natural areas within the city, looking at the public space as an expression of the host society. Parks and gardens have been designed throughout history so as to imitate nature, serving at the same time as a refuge for citizens and as a mirror of the various societies which have followed each other over the centuries. The photographs are shot from the outside, adopting the democratic view of the urban mass. The fences that mark the park boundaries, in the foreground, provide hints on the civilisation that designed the garden, while in the far ground the natural space appears. Often, behind the thickets of branches and plants, the shapes of buildings and other urban constructions may be made out, anchoring the natural elements to these places in the chaotic yet structured metropolitan setting. Alongside the photographs of three different New York parks there are three little artist’s books which create a visual link between the inside and the outside of the gardens.

1 year ago
The Divide, 2011 “Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.”

The Divide, 2011

“Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.”

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radarqnet: World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Expands its Territory At 40,000 square feet, the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in Long Island City is the largest of its kind. Anywhere. But the folks behind its growing success have decided that such an enormous space still doesn’t stand up under their ambitions. To hold onto their title, the Grange has recently decided to expand to a rooftop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, adding more than 45,000 square feet to their current holdings. That’s a heap of vegetables if ever a heap there were. /via nybg

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World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Expands its Territory

At 40,000 square feet, the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in Long Island City is the largest of its kind. Anywhere. But the folks behind its growing success have decided that such an enormous space still doesn’t stand up under their ambitions.

To hold onto their title, the Grange has recently decided to expand to a rooftop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, adding more than 45,000 square feet to their current holdings. That’s a heap of vegetables if ever a heap there were.

/via nybg

(Source: inhabitat.com)

1 year ago
To live as if it was possible to recover certaintywood, EPS, modelling material, 2012 47 cm x 41 cm x 27 cm

To live as if it was possible to recover certainty
wood, EPS, modelling material, 2012

47 cm x 41 cm x 27 cm

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In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called dream therapy has been invented. A device called the “DC Mini” allows the user to view people’s dreams, exploring their subconscious thoughts. The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside the research facility, using her alter-ego “Paprika”, a persona she assumes in the dream world. The movie opens with Paprika counseling Detective Toshimi Konakawa, who is plagued by a recurring dream, the incompleteness of which is a great source of personal anxiety for him. This type of counseling session is not officially sanctioned, so Doctor Atsuko Chiba and her associates must be cautious that word does not leak out to the press regarding the nature of the DC Mini and the existence of Paprika. Her closest ally is Doctor Kōsaku Tokita, a morbidly obese child-at-heart genius and the inventor of the DC Mini. Unfortunately, before the government can pass a law authorizing the use of the device, three of the prototypes are stolen. Because of their unfinished nature, the DC Minis can allow anyone to enter another person’s dreams, giving the culprit an opportunity to get away with all sorts of malicious deeds. Almost immediately, the chief of the department, Doctor Toratarō Shima, goes on a nonsensical tirade and jumps through a window, nearly killing himself. more here trailer.

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called dream therapy has been invented. A device called the “DC Mini” allows the user to view people’s dreams, exploring their subconscious thoughts. The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside the research facility, using her alter-ego “Paprika”, a persona she assumes in the dream world. The movie opens with Paprika counseling Detective Toshimi Konakawa, who is plagued by a recurring dream, the incompleteness of which is a great source of personal anxiety for him. This type of counseling session is not officially sanctioned, so Doctor Atsuko Chiba and her associates must be cautious that word does not leak out to the press regarding the nature of the DC Mini and the existence of Paprika. Her closest ally is Doctor Kōsaku Tokita, a morbidly obese child-at-heart genius and the inventor of the DC Mini. Unfortunately, before the government can pass a law authorizing the use of the device, three of the prototypes are stolen. Because of their unfinished nature, the DC Minis can allow anyone to enter another person’s dreams, giving the culprit an opportunity to get away with all sorts of malicious deeds. Almost immediately, the chief of the department, Doctor Toratarō Shima, goes on a nonsensical tirade and jumps through a window, nearly killing himself.

more here

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ENCamouflage, 2010 camouflageA noun 1 disguise, camouflage The act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance; “he is a master of disguise” Camouflage was developed in Chicago in 2010. It grew up as a reflection of my own experience within the city - a huge space masked, hidden by nature. Although The Windy City is known by its architecture of skyscrapers and bascule bridges, it is worth to mention that it is one of the most representative cities in the U.S. that deal with green issues, energy saving, recycling programs and environmental agenda. Lincoln Park grew from what was once a small cementery. Unlike Chicagos’s other historic parks, where the buildings and landscape scheme were coordinated, no one landscape architect designed Lincoln Park. It is a string of green spaces put together over time, a series of loosely related landscapes. It is also the city’s most heavely used park and, at 1,208 acres its largest. Chicago is green, especially Lincoln Park area and its surroundings where this body of work takes place. Again, as Doll’s House does, Camouflage looks at the relationship between architecture and landscape, but this time in a different way. Nature gains importance and timidly takes the space in a way both, the constructed and the natural, coexist raising an infrequent but necessary dialogue.

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Camouflage, 2010

camouflage
A noun
1 disguise, camouflage
The act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance; “he is a master of disguise”

Camouflage was developed in Chicago in 2010. It grew up as a reflection of my own experience within the city - a huge space masked, hidden by nature. Although The Windy City is known by its architecture of skyscrapers and bascule bridges, it is worth to mention that it is one of the most representative cities in the U.S. that deal with green issues, energy saving, recycling programs and environmental agenda.
Lincoln Park grew from what was once a small cementery. Unlike Chicagos’s other historic parks, where the buildings and landscape scheme were coordinated, no one landscape architect designed Lincoln Park. It is a string of green spaces put together over time, a series of loosely related landscapes. It is also the city’s most heavely used park and, at 1,208 acres its largest.
Chicago is green, especially Lincoln Park area and its surroundings where this body of work takes place. Again, as Doll’s House does, Camouflage looks at the relationship between architecture and landscape, but this time in a different way. Nature gains importance and timidly takes the space in a way both, the constructed and the natural, coexist raising an infrequent but necessary dialogue.