Modes of Engagement #3

Mode of Engagement #3- Drowning in nature

1. Most people don't realize/are disconnected about the damage being done to our planet. This idea is dedicated to having the viewer experience one of the many bad things that is currently happening to our city-- sea level rise, in other words, drowning. This is more about raising awareness through the process of gardening, filling up the space (with maybe plants? this is open to any sort of material) and engaging the viewer into realizing what can possibly happen in the near future. This all falls again into shifting perspective, like what would everything look like if it was underwater or etc. 

2. This starts a conversation about current events in a natural manner that can change the path of our future with nature and how nature will always win no matter what. Because we're all completely disconnected of what is happening to our planet due to everyday life occurrences (going to work, routines that are driven away from nature appreciation, etc), we should all at least expect what is coming for us. 

3. This idea was inspired by Agnes Denes' Wheatfield which consisted of planting two acres of golden wheat. After much tending, one thousand pounds of wheat was eventually harvested and traveled around the world in the exhibition "The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger," which highlighted larger issues of human struggle inherent in agriculture and land use as well as the uncomplicated pleasures of nature.

4. Given the fact that we have so many trees and different levels of height, we can easily connect things together from above, maybe blocking out the sky through some kind of material that can represent water; that way it can affect the perspective of our surrounding through the material (reflections, etc) and have a sense of also looking up rather than just what's around. Given our time circumstance, we can choose to ALSO generate this idea through already existing life size plants or some kind of natural material that references nature yet communicates the idea of drowning.