Mike + Doug Starn Among other things these guys work with bamboo at a somewhat extreme end of the spectrum ... https://www.designboom.com/art/mike-doug-starn-big-bambu/
Since the 1980s, Mike and Doug Starn’s conceptual approach to photography, and use of unorthodox techniques, has broadened notions of what is accepted as a photograph. In a signature manipulation of materials and form, the twin brothers apply innovative printing techniques, and a vast array of materials including transparency film, plexiglass, layered fused glass panels, gilded colored carbon prints, scotch tape, wax and pushpins, to create, and intensify, their metaphorical landscapes. With the theme of light as a central component of their work, the brothers explore the physical and philosophical interconnections between subjects such as leaves, trees, snowflakes, and religious icons, with human memory, perception and thought. Working collaboratively in photography since the age of thirteen, their innovative techniques, and unique combination of sculpture, painting, and video, have defied categorization, and earned them a position of eminence within the history of art.
Born in New Jersey, 1961, Mike and Doug Starn attended The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Their work has been widely exhibited throughout the world, and represented in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among many others. They live and work in Brooklyn, New York.
LINKS
• http://www.wetterlinggallery.com/artists/mike-doug-starn…
• http://www.dmstarn.com/BB_furniture.html•
• http://www.cristinagrajalesinc.com/…/1686-all-the-nightmare…
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXb2rHyIcfs
• http://www.dmstarn.com/BB_furniture.html•
• http://www.cristinagrajalesinc.com/…/1686-all-the-nightmare…
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXb2rHyIcfs
Enset, the 'false banana'
Tuesday, 03 June 2014
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is a member of the same botanical family as the banana, but unlike its cousin it’s not grown for its fruit. The main edible parts of the enset plant are the starchy rhizome and pseudostem. Even though the 'false banana' is native to the highlands of eastern and southern Africa, the domesticated types are virtually unknown outside Ethiopia, where it is a staple for nearly 15 million people in the southwestern part of the country. Earlier this year, a team of British and Ethiopian scientists published a draft genome sequence for enset by using the reference sequence for Musa acuminata as a template onto which they aligned their fragments of DNA, an approach similar to the one used to produce a draft genome sequence for Musa balbisiana. For more information on the crop, browse the Musalit records on Ensete ventricosum and downpload the PDF of The "Tree against hunger".
Tuesday, 03 June 2014
Enset (Ensete ventricosum) is a member of the same botanical family as the banana, but unlike its cousin it’s not grown for its fruit. The main edible parts of the enset plant are the starchy rhizome and pseudostem. Even though the 'false banana' is native to the highlands of eastern and southern Africa, the domesticated types are virtually unknown outside Ethiopia, where it is a staple for nearly 15 million people in the southwestern part of the country. Earlier this year, a team of British and Ethiopian scientists published a draft genome sequence for enset by using the reference sequence for Musa acuminata as a template onto which they aligned their fragments of DNA, an approach similar to the one used to produce a draft genome sequence for Musa balbisiana. For more information on the crop, browse the Musalit records on Ensete ventricosum and downpload the PDF of The "Tree against hunger".
Banana is amongst those plants considered 'most useful' but largely ignored by the 'the developed world'.
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