Paula Hayes greenmuseum.org  :  The Achemical Garden  :  Artist Garden    
   
SPLCD Garden , 2002
(Solar-Powered Liquid Crystal Displays)

To be sited in a lightless air shaft-like space between tall buildings, SPLCD Garden will create a living environment in conditions which have been created by chance in an urban environment and are inhospitable to plant growth but available for outdoor social space and contemplation. Plants and landscapes would be filmed in microcosm and macrocosm, including very small plant life from icy terrains, from many continents and climates and orchestrated into a moving and stitched image loop which would be very slowly and subtly flowing through liquid crystal displays on the walls of the surrounding building surfaces. The transformation of the planting could be in a continual relationship with the lcd technician and a filmmaker responding to the inhabitants of the city garden space over time.

 
SPLCD Garden (detail)
 
Movable Land (ml) , 1997

Movable Land has travelled from NYC to the Galerie fur Landscaftkunst Hamburg, Germany by freight ship, back to NYC, to the Middlebury College Museum, Vermont and back to NYC. Many caretakers have carefully kept a journal of its life. Movable Land is transforming, budding out, sending out runners, going through metamorphosis. Beginning as a small site for introspection for its caretakers as it traveled, an adventure in journal keeping in relation to another living force, as well as a horticultural exploration, Movable Land has become a locus for imagining the possibilities for perceiving landscape.

 
Wild Forms , Soft Cast Silicone Containers for Plants, 2000

These silicone biomorphic forms are able to be subtly sculpted in the process of gardening. The container expresses the essence of gardening; moving plants and sculpting them in relation to the desires we express; hunger, sensuality, and our need for prosthetic protection.

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