Friday, March 27, 2015
A Hanging Garden That Floats Through Space to Meet Your Nose
gizmodo.com: Gardens are beautiful and all but they're almost always inconveniently located on the ground. Instead of stooping to smell the roses, this garden comes to you: A suspended, living arrangement of 2,300 flowers which rises and fall around viewers as they move through the space.
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If only I was not so highly allergic to pollen that I could appreciate such an interesting installation piece… This reminds me of the Rain Room installation which was in the MoMA where the rain would move around you similarly to how the flowers move out of the way of the audience member in this installation. I am not sure how romantically appealing this garden actually is because of the number of insects which would be flying around people’s heads due to the orchids. Also with the flowers continually growing, constant recalculations of how high each plant needs to raise should be recalculated every few days or so. Personally, I hate the smell of flowers because I find it sickly sweet, but that’s a personal problem I have with this installation. I’m sure that it is astounding to others but I would not enjoy this room in the least bit.
I think this is so cool. Not many people do creative things with plants because they might die and they will not last very long and need to be replaced. This is a very interesting idea because they are changing the way people look at a garden. The smell of flowers is very peaceful, but it is hard to do that when the flowers are on the ground and far away from your nose. This experience brings the flowers to you and surrounds your head and nose. The technology behind this is very interesting because it needs to be sensitive enough to move plants without breaking them and also needs to sense where a person is standing. The plants seem alive and that they are interacting with you. Your body controls where the flowers go and what they do which is rare in exhibits. Most of the time the person goes in and sees what the experience is, but here they are creating the experience and movement for themselves. Everyone will have a unique experience in the space depending on what they do.
This is such a simple idea that is really well executed. I can only imagine the logistics of watering all of these plants, not to mention the individual hanging of all of them. I'm interested to know how something like this is planned out and maintained. I also can only imagine how expensive this was to put together. The flowers alone are incredibly expensive. I think the general concept is also interesting. I think it's a very creative solution to having the audience smell the flowers instead of just look at them, which is generally the main usage for flowers, even in art installations. It would be cool to explore this further, perhaps looking into how this would work if the person couldn't actually see the flowers themselves, but only have the smell to be experienced. Perhaps the flowers could be covered with light black drapes, that would cover the flowers themselves but could still be smelled through.B
This Installation is really interesting. I love the idea of incorporating living foliage into an art piece. We don’t often see living elements in art, so its always interesting to see, yes perhaps we see parts of once living creatures, or byproducts, but the idea that the living object itself is the work of art is really quite exciting. I personally feel like this installation would be extremely hard to critique. On one hand it is an aesthetic wonder filled with amazing walls of color that respond to your movement around the space, and I’m sure the engineering of this project was a wondrous feat on its own, but I’d personally have a hard time understanding whether I admired the art piece or merely just the flowers being used. Don’t get me wrong the installation is amazing and I’d love to see it in person, but it just gets me thinking whether or not we should admire an art piece as a whole or through its defining elements, I can’t say for sure which is more important. Fundamentally the defining elements of this piece aren’t overly amazing, they’re just growing orchids like you could find all over the place in the spring, but combined with the technology it is transformed almost into a mystical garden of splendor. I guess what I’m asking is how should we treat the ordinary turned extraordinary, should we scoff, should we renown it, should we appreciate it for what it is, or some combination of the three? This piece is very interesting and I love how living matter is implemented into it to create a larger grand piece.
This is so damn beautiful!!!! I love how they got the plants to move around the visitors as they walk through the exhibition, lifting it to their faces. It really gives the feeling of completely surrounding yourself with beauty. I was relieved to read that they have found a way to keep the flowers growing even though they are upside down. In that point, it is amazing that plants can survive while inverted. My only question is why they specifically set out to make it so you didn't have to stoop down to smell the roses. Is it really that annoying to stoop? I guess it would be hard for people who are elderly to bend over every time without putting a lot of stress on their knees. It’s just interesting that they made that the inspiration for the installation. Regardless, I would love to walk around in this room for hours on end.
This is so beautiful. Of all of the articles I have seen using nature to create an interactive indoor experience, this is definitely one of the most beautiful. The hanging flowers are lovely and the way they move looks really cool in the space. I love how interactive it is. That the art responds to the individual audience members is something that is really key to this exhibit, which wouldn’t be as interesting if the plants were stationary. It almost isolates the audience in the crowd of flowers, which is a very interesting and appealing idea. The video at the end leads me to question how they water the plants (is it just especially humid?) and how slowly the audience members have to walk in order to avoid being hit by the hanging plants as they move slowly through vertical space. Aside from those concerns, it is a very interesting concept that turns our perception of the garden upside down- how cool would it be if they took it one step further, with sunlight coming from the floor and the flowers on the ceiling?
This is an incredibly interesting and innovative idea. I love the fact that they brought beautiful things that are not always noticed into our sight in a great way. I feel as though the sound in the video enhanced the sense of enchantment. At least for me it was really the sound that put my mindset in a new place and gave it a story and a connection. The flowers added a lot of character, as well as the actual actress in it. However, I do believe that this was an inventive way to make the world see beautiful things differently. The fact that it’s interactive with the audience members also adds a magical and majestic quality. The fact that the flowers move up and down to reveal different types of flowers intrigue me. I am very much interested in the beauty and the life and the story that comes from flowers. However, it won't be very long term because flowers do rot and die.
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