English artist Anna Garforth calls herself an "urban land artist," a "guerilla gardener" & a "green graffiti extrodinaire." Her work integrates her interest in urban ecology & sustainability with her creative practice. According to Anna, this has "led me into a world of moss collecting, wild city foraging and hunting down all the undomesticated areas of our urban forest. It has inspired me to discover and understand more about our natural surroundings. I have learnt how to communicate and engage creatively with positive impact, both socially and environmentally."
This project titled HEAD GARDENER turns plastic milk bottles into these eccentric "character" planters!!! Painting and planting the bottles give them unique visual personalities, each with a definitive life cycle based on the plant materials. The ephemeral nature of the work creates an immediate impact and is in collusion with transitory nature of the plantings. Anna says, "I don't wish to preserve it, it lives, it dies, and new growth ensues." In addition to this project, Anna has "written with" moss and leaves ...... which while being ecologically inspired, also relates back to the world of decay, death and rebirth.
I find these pieces very appealing ..... their mask-like faces remind me of African art.
I love the simplicity of thought in their design and their graphic quality .......
and I find the idea of birth, decay, & rebirth an intriguing part of ecology
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