Following Luke Jerram's HIV (series 2) and Rob Kesseler's Sphagnum moss, we are so pleased to have yet another wonderful and inspiring artist, Jennifer Wen Ma, accept to be a part of our kNow-Science Artwork of the Month series.
Below, Inked Garden by Jennifer Wen Ma, currently on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Inked Chandelier
courtesy of Jennifer Wen Ma's studio
Inked Chandelier (2014), a large-scale installation composed of more than 700 live plants, mostly native to Canada’s West Coast, is painted completely black with Chinese ink. Suspended from the oculus of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rotunda, the plants continue to grow as green buds sprout from the blackness. The site-specific work is a dialogue between the past and present, in which Ma pays homage to the legacy of ink painting by emphasizing time as an element of the composition: viewers observe the live installation transform over the duration of the exhibition.
For further information on the work of Jennifer Wen Man please visit littlemeat.net
courtesy of Jennifer Wen Ma's studio
Inked Chandelier (2014), a large-scale installation composed of more than 700 live plants, mostly native to Canada’s West Coast, is painted completely black with Chinese ink. Suspended from the oculus of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rotunda, the plants continue to grow as green buds sprout from the blackness. The site-specific work is a dialogue between the past and present, in which Ma pays homage to the legacy of ink painting by emphasizing time as an element of the composition: viewers observe the live installation transform over the duration of the exhibition.
For further information on the work of Jennifer Wen Man please visit littlemeat.net