Seeded

2012, dirt, clay, seeds, hand-made paper, hand-made journals, colored pencils, pipette containers.

Seeded was a project implemented in University City, MO as part of their annual sculpture series. I partnered with Barbara C. JordanElementary’s fourth grade art students. We spend six weeks together working through a series of art-based questions and brainstorming surrounding the idea of green-spaces, and the creation of greenspaces within the students home district.

We explored the idea of green-spaced from a personal, economic, and mental health standpoint, scaled for their understanding. A large part of the workshop was asking the students to challenge their own perceptions of what change they were capable of affecting in their own lives and neighborhoods.

We discussed over-grown and neglected spaces that they were able to identify within their lives. While discussing these spaces used seed-bomb material to construct tiny sculptures. Seed bombs, once dry, can be tossed onto a lot, into a median, wherever, to melt in the rain and sprout. And thus the students created tiny sculptures with the intention of destroying them, knowing that they are creating something beautiful for themselves to grow into something beautiful for the world