Comments on: Somewhere a Shanghai garden grows

By: idit

idit — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:41:15 +0000

Don’t miss the video, too, which contextualizes the piece!

By: dany

dany — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:42:28 +0000

Nancy, for the exhibit, the artist wrapped each individual plant with a rice-paper shell. Just as with the other pieces of the installation, he refashions the old and the new and ultimately blurs that temporal line.

By: laura

laura — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:55:52 +0000

i found flipflaps at thinkgeek and ordered enough for a little garden of solar goodness. xensen, i have extras if you'd like one! and nico, i'm pretty sure they do bulk discounts...

By: digi

digi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:30:02 +0000

Wow thats amazing… So it flaps its leaves in a repetitive motion when the lights are on! Thats way better than an actual plant that converts carbon monoxide to breathable oxygen.. This thing is ingenious! And OMG spending tens of thousands of dollars transferring gray bricks overseas to form the foundation for a relatively bland and un-moving abstract piece…
Wow…
Human kind is doomed.
Can I trade my humanity in to become a sparrow or something?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:12:22 +0000

You mean that they weren’t manufactured by the artist especially for this exhibit?

By: bittermelon

bittermelon — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:30:15 +0000

I’ve seen those plants around, and just recently at the Chinatown Community Street Fair ($10 a pop). Should’ve bought a bunch, but alas…

By: nico

nico — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:50:17 +0000

you would not believe how hard it is to get ahold of those wee leafy things…considering we don’t have them yet, perhaps you would.

By: xensen

xensen — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:38:49 +0000

I want one of the little plants!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:12:32 +0000

I loved the tiny plants. I had to look twice to be sure that I wasn’t seeing things when their tiny leaves moved up and down. I appreciate the concept behind the brick installation but I’m just not sure that I buy it when paired with the large raspberry silicone pieces. The bricks alone were evocative of history and I would have LOVED to have seem the museum staff vacuuming them. Ah, the uses of a college education!
Xensen – I like the photo as I think you’ve done justice to their color and texture. Not an easy feat, I imagine.

By: cristina

cristina — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:15:29 +0000

It's a cool effect, definitely ups the contrast and foregrounds the rocks nicely. As an aside, for the curious, the little green waving "plants" are Tomy Flip Flaps, a line of solar-powered plastic plants with a bit of a cult following. Our registrar Cathy reports that no car in Shanghai was complete without one attached to the dash!