Thursday 24 July 2008

Grass Class!


For this years Wimbledon, leading British artists Ackroyd & Harvey were commissioned to produce a unique piece of art using the medium of Grass. And the piece they created is incredible. I had absolutely no idea this could be done with grass so accurately.
By projecting a black and white negative image onto a patch of grass as it grew in a dark room, the natural photosensitive properties of the grass altered to produce the photograph on the negative. The grass acted as the photographic medium.
Up close the Grass appears perfectly normal, but if you back away from it the image comes together and it's hard to believe it's been done on grass at all. It mixes Art with Science, and it works amazingly.

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