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This virtual space is a place where I can share all of the great projects and artists that have taken on "environment" as a theme in their work. As I do research for a project of mine called Uncovering Food & Health, Altar of Awareness, that looks at the food we eat and how that has impacted health, especially in minority communities, I am finding more and more that I want to share and remember here. My project draws from Dia de los Muertos, as a hope to speak to my own Latin community about health, food, and the environment.

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Aviva Rahmani - Ecological Artist

Photo by Ben Magro

"Aviva Rahmani purchased the site of a former coastal town dump on a fishing island, in the Gulf of Maine for Ghost Nets (1990-1991). The project restored 2.5 acres of habitat in the middle of an Atlantic seabird Class A Fly Zone, to a flourishing wetlands system and personal residence. Rahmani designed a passive solar home on the site, with Steve Robinson, AIA and created a complex uplands riparian zone garden and water buffer zones. The project was divided into three parts; 1) the Trigger Point Garden, 2) KindWind, 3) Traffic Dance. Each part was performative, transformative and explored another aspect of soil to land for the site work conceptually and practically" - Aviva Rahmani,
http://www.ghostnets.com/ghostnets.html

"The premise is that an artist's skills can be applied to observe, analyze, interpret and catalyze very small ecological "patches" in an environmentally degraded landscape "mosaic" as environmental triage."
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