-MICHELE BRODY-
The quest for environmental artists is taking me on a great journey and I cannot seem to type fast enough to keep up. Today's environmental artist is a New York native that, similar to Cooper, works with our relationship with the environment. The work below is a room built of nylon curtain with wheat grass seeds that are watering through brass tubing that runs through the curtains. The Grass sprouting chair is placed where the windows view the Hudson river so when the viewer seats in the chair they can see the sprawling Manhattan landscape through rows of small grass seedlings.
Brody's work focuses on the notion of "Limen- the threshold through which one passes at the starting point for a new state or experience." What this means is that her work generates a physical, sensory, and emotional response from the viewer. For example when you are in a room filled with blue colored lights your eyes are put into a sense of overload and cannot focus on the actual space around them. In this way her works make the audience part of the environment, plant, or animal within the work. They are a study of the rural versus urban and the relationship we have to time, space, earth, and ourselves.
To see photos of her work check out her website: Michele Brody
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