Collecting the Preserved Garden
Overall dimensions:
32’ wide x 56’ long x 12’ high
Solar-powered
greenhouse with native and heirloom plants, light
boxes with Duratran transparencies.
Commissioned
by Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
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Mara
Adamitz Scrupe
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Studio: Cliff Eerie Farm
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Bremo Bluff, Virginia 23022
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Studio: (434) 581-8181
Mobile: (202) 288-0172
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Multimedia projects dealing with the preservation of plants
and animals considered threatened, endangered, and species of special
concerns, ideas about biodiversity and environmental balance, and the
effects of the burning of fossil fuels on environmental health and
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My art practice employs environmentally
proactive strategies; using my knowledge of botany, horticulture, and
alternative energy technologies I attempt to call attention to and help
save native and heirloom plants. For recent site projects I’ve located, identified, and rescued
hundreds of important plants growing on lands slated for development,
and in my custom-designed solar-powered greenhouse projects, I’ve
grown endangered and threatened species from seed, using organic horticultural
methods and clean, renewable energy production in plant propagation and
maintenance. Re-introducing plant species and seeds into native habitats
is a central goal of my work; specimens grown for my projects are ultimately
given away to local gardeners to help repopulate native ecosystems. The
manufacture and use of fossil fuels, and the associated production of
so-called “greenhouse gases”, is also an important theme
of these projects, as is the vital role played by plants in the food
web, and the importance of conserving plant materials which serve the
animal community and the natural environment as a whole.
Current commissioned projects: Garden for the Third Coast, The Buffalo Bayou Art Park, Houston, Texas, USA (Spring 2005); Pack (The Wolf Project), TICKON (The Tranakaer Centre for Art and Nature) Langeland, Denmark (Summer 2005); The Lichen Project, Fota Arboretum, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland (Fall 2005).
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