Growing portraits with grass

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“Grass is something that most of us take for granted. We walk all over it, we lay on it and sometimes mow it down. Few appreciate grass the way Dan Harvey and Heather Ackroyd do. And yet their art can stop you in your tracks. By manipulating the natural processes that fuel life itself, these British artists blur the line between science, nature and art, all while drawing attention to climate change.” Read more about the artists HERE

Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video :

• Grass is something we take for granted
• We walk all over it
• We don’t give it much thought
• The magic of seeing them in print
• Come to life and grow
• Blur the lines between science, nature and art
• Mega flooding scenarios
• Severe weather events are happening
• Time and time again
• Increasingly more frequently
• Biodiversity loss
• Climate change
• It was within our sight
• Photosynthesis
• We work with the seed
• Germinate their seeds for about two weeks
• The image develops over the period of weeks
• We grow the grass vertically
• The studio space
• We turn it into a darkroom
• The only light that the grass receives
• Projected negative image
• It produces more of the chlorophyll, more of the green pigment
• The equivalent to a black and white photograph
• But in tones of green to yellow
• We can work really really large-scale
• The resolution phenomenal
• It’s part of a process of discovery
• The mediums you work with
• Part of our palette and materials that we play with
• They can last indefinitely
• When you can put the lights out
• Someone who cares passionately about what they’re doing
• I’m still a bit taken aback by all this grass

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