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Botanical Bath offers an indoor nature experience Botanical Bath offers an indoor nature experience that appeals to the human senses, using plants to play a trick on the human mind. The visitor is encouraged to reach through the opening and bathe in this hyper-natural world, created with dried plants, light, smell and sound.

Botanical Bath is part of the Dutch pavilion’s exhibition Have we met? for the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition, promoting new ways for understanding our planet as a shared space for plants, microbes, humans and other animals. The view that the earth exists solely for human exploitation must be radically rethought to confront today’s environmental crises. Have we met? therefore examines what attitudes, tools and technologies are necessary to recalibrate the relationship between humans and non-humans.

Made in collaboration with botanical artist @frank_bruggeman, perfumer @liza_witte and sound designer Alfred Koster.

Thanks to @ellenzoete, @nikkihurk, @klaas_kuitenbrouwer and @studio_ossidiana for the wonderful collaboration.

Thanks to @robertadicosmo for all your help in gathering, building and putting together this installation.

Thanks to @liza_witte for designing such a wonderful scent in such a short period of time. Next time I’ll make sure to contact you much, much earlier.

Thanks to @joyce.oomen, @kore_flowersplants and @eenbloemetjeoptafel for your fantastic dried flowers.

Exhibiton design by @studio_ossidiana
Graphic design by @michomaca and @buster0friendly

📸 Nicole Marnati
The glorious garden of @imfederaltwist. Hope to vi The glorious garden of @imfederaltwist. Hope to visit it in real life one day, till then his wonderful book offers solace.

‘Structure is the form and organization of the garden. How does the garden look? How do you move through the garden? What do you do in the garden? Where do you do it? What is the garden for? Our designs help you plan the structural "bones" of the garden--paving, terraces and patios, decks, pools, pathways, staircases, rockwork, stone walls, privacy screens, furniture, special objects and features--and, of course, the plantings.⁠’
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📝📸 federaltwistdesign.org / @imfederaltwist
"I have been carrying out a dialogue between the l "I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette). I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It is a return to the maternal source. Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth ... I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body. This obsessive act of reasserting my ties with the earth is really the reactivation of primaeval beliefs ... [in] an omnipresent female force, the after-image of being encompassed within the womb."-Ana Mendieta, 1988⁠

‘Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld. Although her untimely death in 1985 remains shrouded in controversy, her life and artistic legacy provide a unique vantage point from which to consider the history of performance art, installation, and earth works, as well as feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodernism.⁠’

⁠📝📸 moma.org
Braiding the Knoll by artist Angela Eastman @flagm Braiding the Knoll by artist Angela Eastman @flagmountain.studio⁠
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'The Braiding the Knoll project happened during a two-year fellowship I completed at Penland School of Crafts in western North Carolina.  The project stemmed from an ongoing interest in visualizing human connection to the land, as both beneficiaries of nature's abundance and as agents of destructive development practices.'⁠
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'Penland School is located in a remote location in the Blue Ridge Mountains and is adjacent to a large meadow which frames the view of the mountains.  Each year the meadow is mown into walking paths which include mown circles for picnicking or reading.  I braided the rim of each of these circles over the course of a week.  The project became an exercise in observation, in allowing my thoughts to quiet enough to hear the grass rustling under my hands, notice the incredible variety of pattern and color in the field, smell the earth baking in the heat of early summer.  It was satisfying and surprising to see the strength of the grass over time: the braids stayed sturdily intact for over two weeks before they were mown.'⁠
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⁠📝📸 angelaeastman.com
Thanks to @la.janhouweling I got to learn about Ba Thanks to @la.janhouweling I got to learn about Baubotanik.⁠
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‘The Baubotanik Tower is a test and demonstration building. It exemplifies new possibilities of engineering with living plants and visualizes the architectual and ecological potential of Baubotanik.’
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‘The building has a footprint of about eight square meters and a hight of barely nine meters with three walkable levels. It is the first baubotanical project which was realized by using the plant addition method. The vegetable structure was made out of one hundred young 2-meter-high silver willows (Salix alba). Only the lowest plants were bedded into the ground, whereas all others rooted in special plant containers arranged on seven different levels.⁠’
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‘The whole construction is supported by a temporary steel tube scaffold which is embedded in the ground on a screw base – a structure which always can be removed again. The plant containers are constantly kept wet to ensure the necessary water for the plants. On that contition, all plants will completely intergrow with each other. Thereby it shall be examined how long it takes for the structure to get water and nutriens out of the ground independently.⁠’
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‘Traces are made out of two plants arranged in form of a rhombus to create the plant structure. At their crossing points they are connected to the horizontal arranged levels. In process of time, the plants merge together and join to a vigorous connection with the levels. Thereby they develop a timber-framed supporting structure. As soon as the living structure is stable enough to support the ingrown levels and take over the loading capacity, the scaffold will be removed. Depending on many factors, this process can not been predicted. It shall be studied at this structure. Therefore a period of about 5 up to 10 years is expected. Then the plants will take up vertical forces and solely through the combination with the horizontal arranged technical modules a stiffening structure originates.⁠’
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📝📸 ferdinandludwig.com
Berkenpalissade (birch palisade) by Dutch artist S Berkenpalissade (birch palisade) by Dutch artist Sjoerd Buisman.

'Nature meets the visual arts here, or else nature becomes visual art, visual art becomes nature. The sculptures have been given a place in the landscape, they change with the seasons and are also influenced by light, rain and wind.'⁠ 

‘Nature is Buisman's material, and it has different requirements than traditional sculpture materials. As a nature artist, he must start from patterns that underlie the growth of organisms. Soil quality and light conditions play a role in the choice of site. For example, he allows the Birch Palisade, an enclosed square, to contrast with the vast openness of the immediate surroundings through its isolation.’
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📝📸 syavantvlie.nl
A big thank you once again to @stefano.marinaz , w A big thank you once again to @stefano.marinaz , who took these wonderful photos of The Voice of Urban Nature. The planting is growing so well, weaving into each other. 

This Sunday we’ll add some more plants, even though now I'm thinking: can we even find a spot for them? ⁠
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@floriadeexpo2022 ⁠
@gemeenteamsterdam ⁠
@gemeente.almere 
@overtredersw 
@onkruidenier 
@kossmanndejong 
@joyce.oomen 
@paulfaassen 
@fictionfactory.amsterdam 
#paulcasteleijn
The foliage in this garden! So many textures, stru The foliage in this garden! So many textures, structures and colours. Mostly due to @marijn_huigen and @witsdefrit who take such good care of the garden and keep on evolving it by adding plants and trees that fit in just perfectly 😘
Baakenpark Hamburg⁠ by Atelier Loidl / @atelier_ Baakenpark Hamburg⁠ by Atelier Loidl / @atelier_loidl 
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⁠"Since 2015 an artificial peninsula made of sand from the river Elbe has become the green centre of the eastern part of HafenCity. The spectacular topography together with the self-seeded tree population form a variety of different spaces. As a result, the park, covering only 1,6 ha, has a surprisingly spacious feel.⁠"⁠
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📝 atelier-loidl.de / @atelier_loidl⁠
📸 Leonard Grosch / leonardgrosch.de