Wednesday, November 5, 2008

There's something funny about this grass.

When you think about Wimbledon, what do you see? White shorts. White shirts. Rackets flying around. Grunting. Some crazy Brit streaking the court. And grass. Yes, grass. In honor of this famous turf, artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey created these interesting grass photos. They used the grass itself as the paper and then projected b/w photos onto it while it grew in a dark room. Yeah, who thinks of this stuff?

Anyhow, their technique is part biology, part art as they literally deprived the grass of light to develop the photographic shape. And as you can imagine, the art's lifespan is quite short. As soon as the grass sees the light of day, it begins to grow more evenly and the photos fade away. Kind of like, Anna Kournikova's tennis career.



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