Soil Translations (interactive installation) investigates the natural and historical elements of the BSCG and BCA. The unique juxtaposition of both places provides for a rich representation of the ongoing translations occurring in the South End. Through methodical soil testing, weed identifying and weeding, this project examines the organic matter of the gardens and the history of the South End. The contents of soil can determine the health and success of organisms living in it. What kind of soil is the South End community founded on? What type of "living prganisms" is this land harvesting? What parts of the South End history lie beneath the soil? The "data" collected through the Soil Translations results in an installation of the reconstruction of an interactive garden plot, Weeding Room in the gallery. The Weeding Room will also be entered into competition to have a space at the Spring 2005 Massachusetts Horticultural Society's N.E. Flower and Garden Show that has a very restructed and limited Eurocentrric definition of a "garden".
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Boston Center for The Arts
- Mills Gallery
Exhibition June 17 – July 31, 2005
Berkeley Street Community Garden Links
Garden Links
- Changing World
- Center for Urban Horticulture
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Food Security Learning Center
- Environmental Federation of New England
- East St. Louis Action Research Project
- The United States National Arboretum
- Boston Gardens
- Coquitlam Public Library
- Light Watcher
- Gardening with Florida Yards & Neighborhoods
- More Gardens
- New Village
- City Farmer
- Earthly Pursuits
- the gardenLAB experiment
- The Spirit of Gardening
From Hiroko
South End Community Links
What's growing in C26
this is a not-to-scale map of whats growing in c26...
what if we could (more sophisticatedly) map some of the other gardeners' plots through the growing season... looking at crop rotation-what choi is grown earlier in the season, when do melon plants go in the ground? hmm just an idea!
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