Gardens of Memory
Chinchakriya Un’s latest endeavor in service of this greater good was at New Inc.’s Creative Science Dinner this year, which brought together the community working within the New Museum-associated incubator’s “creative science” track. Now in its fourth year, the dinner was held at Noo Arts, a Greenpoint performing arts center located in a building formerly owned by ExxonMobil, also marking the site of an oil spill in the late 1970s that bled into the adjacent Newton Creek and ultimately affected 52 acres of surrounding land and waterways.
Resonant Nature
Resonant Nature celebrates an environment’s vibratory properties. Resonant Nature is an installation made of vertical sculptural pieces resembling vibration patterns emanating and echoing from nature. The sculpture includes four sets of progressively growing biological forms resembling an echo shape framing nature representing the idea of nature emitting vibrational life.
Brooklynites bring sustainability and creativity together at 8th annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival
The 8th annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival, a nature-inspired arts celebration, welcomed hundreds of visitors over the weekend to explore a 24,000-square-foot green roof, listen to music, and see how the natural world and the artistic world often coincide and interact.