Event 1

The first event I attended was the hands-on workshop by Linda Weintraub. The focus of the event was how disconnected from nature we are. Before entering the gallery we talked about how in today's world everything is mass produced from iPhones to food and we rarely have time spent with natural grown things. Going around the room we were asked what percent of our day we spend without produced goods and completely with nature, there was a lot of 0%, 1% and 2% answers which really showed how we're consumed by the materialistic world. Another idea she brought up was how our feet are a very good indicator of our environment so she invited us to take off our shoes as she had laid out different things for us to step on to get the full experience.


Once we we got in there were boxes with different kinds of things from nature ranging from twigs and leaves to rocks and mushrooms. Each box had a certain question concerning the piece of nature inside it, for example one of the boxes had a baby tree that was taken from New York and the question had to do with where the tree belonged: whether its new purpose was in displaying art or if it should be replanted back in New York.




The past couple weeks we have described how art can be seen in many different ways  that we normally wouldn't think about, like in science or math.  This workshop added another to that list cause it showed how art can be seen in nature if we just look closely. 

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