2024 Gratitude list for facilitating and participation of Living LoBS residency — always growing. The more we are the better the water becomes.
Thank you Tidewater Center for the space and opportunity to do this. Thank you for all the local tips and connections that made this possible. More to come regarding the web of living LoBS interconnectivity, the participants in the 14 years of building the Ephemeral Piazza—>into now Microbes to Metropolis: a seven chronicle pedagogy.
Most recently many thanks to Patrick Wadden & Marlena at the Arm of the Sea participants for the space and use of the former puppet bus as my MoS MoBS LoBS Labs.
Patrick is around helping with everything serendipity man. Knots, ropes, bamboo, sand rock bags, setting up the launch and listening,
Paul Mankiewicz, PhD, GaiaInstitute.com for his advice in creating this living marsh raft and bioremediation inspiration over the years!
Amanda Cassidy Engather meet up kick started the project into social realms.
Christa H Mattia Bokashi and hosting the opening, beneficial mud balls.
Alex Mattia & Kai phragmites collection
Engather Community with Amanda Cassidy help three events: Bokashi, mud ball making & throw. Some participants were Soyal Smalls and daughter, Jill Olesker, Johanna Grabiarz and her son, Leslie Ruckman, Sarah and more.
Leslie Ruckman clay from Cottekill and her studio & farm.
Biochar lifestyles from Bill at White Feather Farm.
Adam Pumilio supporting tests by making available the fish tanks for the mud ball testing.
Kathy Puffer for allowing me to trim her willow tree and snag her incredible angora shearing from her goats.
Ashokan Center goats for their goat fleece- super serendipity. As I was walking out I saw the goats and asked the caretaker, whom I had met before, for fleece.
Doug Cullen and Wandering Wednesday community
Claudia Joseph’s Rondout Valley Permaculture meet up.
R Stang for helping me sew up the burlap tubes and helping at launch.
Anne & Ted Apparu-Hall for their oyster fungi and serendipity: the kids found fresh water muscles and snails. Anne & Ted for helping with mycoremediation and their kids found the fresh water mussels 9/15/24. They are in the Esopus now.
Joanna Grabiarz for helping the week before launch documenting the preparation of the raft, attaching sculpture, processing SCOBYs. Helping at launch & her son Apollo helped pull the kayak in.
MJ Smythe for help on the big day of launch for her angora fleece work, dyeing and twirling, weaving in blueberries from Zoë, goldenrod and poke berry. She paddled miles sinking in her kids kayak to help set up and decorate the raft. Remembering the knots: “2 half hitches” said Patrick, planting in the raft, speckling it w mudballs.
The launch was a group effort of many people who arrived. Good to note for my next events. One can participate and one might find one can be of service. Video is great because the art here is nothing we can buy for our walls — it’s participation and collaboration.
Michelle brought dry medicinal flowers, Chris took video,
– therefore art sponsors are always welcome.
See how this The Living LoBS web grows! There a place for everyone created by the one.
Over the years it’s beneficial succession:
2019-2021 Thanks to Jill and Hoke for Grace Exhibition Space for participating in & hosting the East Village Wellness Circle so many times. For Grace Exhibition Space for collaborating on offerings & the space for 6 months where I set up MoS looking back to organize to grow in presence to create forward.
Urban Soil Institute: since 2018 – chair: Paul Mankiewicz, PhD. Art Residencies led by Margaret Boozer. Tatiana & George runs the education & soil testing. Swale House: home of USI on Governors Island
Center for Bioregional Living: Andrew Faust for his Permaculture training course in ‘09 with all his wonderful guest teachers.
Earth Matter compost educational farm led by Marisa Dedominicis & Charlie.
Marga Snyder & Ross Martin in my permi course for bringing me into the fold.
La Plaza Cultural Community in 2009 and all the garden members all over the city ultimately. So many wonderful yrs in community garden life. list.
East Village Wellness Circle Community : long list!
El Jardin Del Paraiso Community : list
Garbagia Community: annual big puppets show
Campos Community Garden
Shig Matsukawa for his effective microbe expertise, recyclefoodwaste.org. Mudballs Bokashi & Brunch at Jimmy’s 43. 2010-2012. List.
LUNGS Loisaida Urban Neighborhood Gardens since 2012: Harvest Arts Festival & Spring Awakening.
Ecological City Pageant, Felicia Young, opportunity to teach and create the container in which to challenged me to be the artist along with the organizer since 2018. List of participants.
Thanks in 2016 Peter McCoy for inspiring and teaching me how to cultivate mycelium.
Harbor Lab 2013 for the kayak level 1 training & my Billion Oyster Project teacher certification.
Collaborators in the Living LoBs Plaza of the Wind 2021 at Grace Exhibition Space on the plaza at 11/C nyc. (list of participants)
here’s everyone all together.
JK Canepa, Wendy Brawer, Wendy Henry Acupuncture/Acumobile, Sonia Pena, Marie Argeris, Christopher Batenhorst, Karin Kincheloe, Alexia Weilder, George Hirose, JC Augustin, Chana Widawski, Alejandro & Paul Garrin of Loisada TV, Ann Lee, Rolando Politi (kappo kappino), Doug Tyson, Lisa Shafir, Rose, Joanne Russo, Derek Gaither, Harry B Lichtenstein, Wenting Chen, Betty T. Kao, (RIP), jimmy Simopolus, Marga Snyder, Ross Martin, Simin Farkhondeh, Teresa Byrnes, Tessa Grundon, Marta Dann, Rachel Kaplan Acupuncture & daughter Lily (for 10 yrs!), Dominik Eckenstein, Loisaida Center, Daniela Fabrizi & Patricio & Zule Alejandro, Patricio O’hea, Daniel Polnau (RIP), Elisa Blynn of Garbagia, Bill DiPaula Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space & Times Up, Billion Oyster Project, Barnaby Rhue, NYU Gallatin, Kimberly Tate: Parsons/New School, Joan Beard, Ben Shepherd, Kate Blair, Meagan Perry, Monica Ibacache, Caspar Hanak, Sharon Kimmelman, Gil Lopez, Flux Factory, Smiling Hogshead Ranch, Nadette Stassa. East Village Wellness Circle 100’s of us. Catherine Walcott (RIP), Naoko Okabe, Keat Foong, Tim Paulson, Liz Neves, Barbara Augsburger, Susan Greenfield, Paula Segal of 596 Acres, Angelo Zaharatos, Lucie Van Der Elst of French zine [sic]), Lisa Shaub, Jenni OTTILIE Keppler, beka, Kimberly Tate, Diana Seiler, Simone johnson, Soule Golden, Dominik Eckenstein, Dr. Noreen Kelly, Shaki Smith, Stewart Hoyt, Dr Martha Eddy of former Studio 55, and BodyMind Movement,
list … contact me to add people I’m missing. I have 100’s to go still! If only we could stay close and work together more. Humm. Non virtually.
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