It’s hard to describe the feeling of seeing your artwork, animated and shimmering over a colossal metropolis. For World Mental Health day @lululemon took over the twin towers in Chengdu, mainland China, with The Wellbeing Garden by yours truly @graphic_rewilding
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#一起好状态 #好状态心展花园 #graphicrewilding #togetherwegrow #publicart #flowerart #natureart
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New Nature. Vast canvases of vibrant buzzing nature, draping and overwhelming industrial scale halls. Graphically Rewilding urban spaces and projecting an alternative reality. Hacking happiness by punching through to our inate desire for nature, so often missing from our fast city existence.
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Iris upon Iris upon Iris
Irises seem to demonstrate so clearly the infinite possibilities of form even within one species.
In these silhouettes we are not only able to recognise it as a flower but also as a specific species of flower. Properties of nature get processed super quickly at the early stages in the visual system and take much less cognitive load. Because of this they evoke feelings of happiness by triggering the reward centres of our brains.
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FLOWER CLOUD FLOATABLES
We want people to be totally enveloped in surreal, humungous, maximalist floatables. The cloud silhouette from of our Flower Cloud sculptural benches, lifted off the ground and hung overhead, borrowing the floating logic of previous inflatable artworks like Garden of My Imagination, rounded out and softened.
NOT AI. Built in 3D with our own fair hands.
Absolutely FANTASTIC to see our animation projected onto The Design Museum of Barcelona as part of OFFF Barcelona @offfest@dissenyhub - long live MICROSCOPIC MAXIMALISM! 🌸🌸🌸
Huge thanks to @frameboy.studio
Reading some properly fascinating research recently on how we look at art these days. A study in Bologna using AI cameras tracked museum visitors and found the average person now spends just 4 to 5 seconds in front of a painting. Even the Mona Lisa only holds people for about 15 seconds at the Louvre.
We’re not really looking anymore - we’re scanning, glancing, ticking things off, moving on.
What do you think?
Olivia Meehan’s lovely book Slow Looking makes the case that this simple act of really paying attention is becoming a lost art. I think she’s onto something. And with our public art, we want to give people a few minutes of pause in their hectic day - hopefully mitigating some of the negative effects of our ever-increasing pace of life.
We LOVE what we do!!! A few more images from our latest artwork, Fleeting Opulance, in New York.
If you’re in the area, a fantastic time to see the interior glass art is around sunset, for rich golden colours, deep reflections and an ethereal atmosphere.
Pictures and Videos by @dapingluo , @cee.dy2 and Sean Drakes
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We are so super proud and happy to have had the opportunity to create ‘Fleeting Opulence’ , our latest and largest window artworks inside and out, celebrating the riot of wildflowers and pollinators of spring at Brookfield Place, New York, for their 8th annual arts commission.
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There’s something poetic about the rushing silhouettes of pedestrians striding past our glowing glass artwork.
This is a detail of ‘Fleeting Opulance’, Graphic Rewilding’s huge celebration of spring at Brookfield Place, New York, until October.
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Anyone heard of James Turrell’s ‘Roden Crater’? It’s a truly monumental, ongoing land art project by the artist in Northern Arizona’s Painted Desert. For the last 40 years, yes, 40 YEARS, he’s been transforming an extinct volcanic cinder cone into a naked-eye observatory for celestial events.
On our roadtrip, we were really hoping it was open to the public, but no such luck yet, unless you have a spare $6500 for a donation to the project 🙄
Still. we were super chuffed to stumble across one of his ever stunning skyspaces at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art @_smoca
Heading home via New York, but here are a few pics from our travels
‘Fleeting Opulence’ our latest and largest window artwork, filling the vast glass Cathedral like communal square at Brookfield Place, New York, for their 8th annual arts commission.
In our ever increasing pace and pressure of life, this celebration of that fleeting moment in spring when life bursts open in a riot of colour, is an invitation to take a breath.
@BFPLNY@BrookfieldPropArtsEvents
Many thanks to @jakobdahlin@bonnie_bijoux_ and @_monicamacho_ for their fantastic photos
A glorious Roadtrip to Phoenix Arizona via the truly breathtaking Grand Canyon and Monument Valley. We’re busy researching, photographing and sketching desert flora and fauna for a big show coming later this year. Can’t wait to reveal all.
Featured flowers:
Desert Prince’s Plume
Evening primrose
Scorpionweed
California Buckwheat
