a new installation in 2010

I was lucky enough to be chosen to do a piece for the RACC sponsored Portland Building Installation Space once again next October. This is the site of the original Vertical Garden that recently found a permanent home.
Here's the excerpt from my proposal to give you an idea of what's in store this time:

For the Portland Building, I will create an installation inspired by the wallpaper prints of Arts and Crafts designer William Morris. The plant elements will be made of the same materials as my previous work: painted recycled wood. An added element of painted wire will create a dominant vine form, linking my elements and establishing a repetitive, symmetrical pattern of flora and fauna on the largest wall. This wallpaper-like plant will “grow” from multiple sources near the ground.

Upon closer observation, the pieces at the very edges of this main wall will begin to break form, becoming more wild and emerge out of their flat plane. These elements will sometimes seek interaction with the viewer, and in other parts, crave the light coming from the open ceiling above. Elements that creep onto the west wall will become more wild as they go--a bird that may seemed tranquil on the other wall might turn its head toward the audience here, with a provocative object held in its beak.

A monochromatic carpet will fill much of the floor space, and it will be apparent that some of the vines coming from the main wall have been covered by this surface, similar to the black ground cloth we use to smother unruly growth on an urban plot of land. These vines have traveled beneath the surface, however, sprouting up in far corners again. Like the west wall, these plants are slightly changed when they re-emerge.

Expect to see a lot of images next year as I figure out how to make this crazy idea happen!