“The Gaia Sculpture is a Water Bioremediation System, a symbol not only of a new youth designing regenerative culture, it is regenerative itself. Weaved with willow that grows at waters’ edge, seeds for birds, a raft of reeds binds heavy metals out of water column for over a decade, moss adds micro-nutrients, kelp deacidifies the water, sequesters CO2, attached floating hair-booms as a counter balance that absorb surface oil with oyster mushrooms to eat oil & hair, the oysters filter it. (Ideally willow oyster cages hang off the mycobooms). The EM-1 mud balls went down right away to eat sludge, organic matter, breakdown toxins to further bind harmful elements out of the food web, add vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids & oxygen.”
Gratitude for the Resources from Lifestyles of Beneficial Succession & Symbiosis
All the elements are excess or waste from special places and not to extract anything in use. Our challenge is to live a lifestyle that creates the products or byproducts that become our resources.
To name a few: The willow is from a 30 yr old community planted tree recently taken down at La Plaza Cultural. Reeds are from clearing a new community garden in Rockaway started by Anne & Ted Hall, hair from the 1% & their dogs in Soho made by Tess, twine is from Sonia & Chris, DD hand made twine from milkweed stalk skin from East River Park, dirt is nyc compost, em-1 from Shig 12th St Bokashi, leftover roses from Families for Safe Streets healing ceremony from Chana Widawski. Amaranth & Echinacea from Permaculture bungalow garden ripped up for “ideal” grass now they’re plagued w mosquitoes, infestations needing pesticides furthering the problem and cancer.
Gratitude for Suppliers, Makers and Eventers help
Parsons students of Kimberly Tate & Maika’i Tubbs: Shirley Tang helped select the first pieces from which we developed the character. Raft braiding Sam & Ella and Chloe. Many amulets made by Sam Fuchs. The 6 foot strand of mussel shells woven by Nom, Chloe, Alana, Carolina.
Ella Christenson, Sam Fuchs, Chloe Mclean, Nam Nguyen, Alana Campbell, Carolina, Ashley Kim, June Lee. Our visiting geologist, permi from Berlin Swenja Rosenwinkel & Chana Widawski brought back 9 foot reeds from Rockaway Victory Farm. Campos Gardeners: Christopher Batonhorst Rose McShane, Alexia Weidler out of the blue with critical help with raft making. Artist Friends came to help with the raft: Lisa Shafir, Derek Gaither, Sonia Peña. Tess Grundon, artist, decorated the raft day of launch. Facilitating raft reed clear & harvest: Svenja from Berlin, Chana with her skilled bike delivery methods. Adsila, Anne & Tedd Hall & Tahirih for the love & support. Peter’s plant truck moved sculpture from Campos, the gardeners of Campos for making space for the project & interesting chats.
Shirley Tang, Parsons/New School
Launch
Italo Morelli, Renato Kuhn, Mark Daly, Maika’i Tubbs, dd Maucher and the women behind her and a guy who jumped the railing.
Advisors
Paul Mankiewicz biochemistry regarding Phragmites reeds, kelp; Rose McShane reed weaving tips; Dan Tainow weaving twine milkweed tips. Shig Matsukawa EM-1, Roy Arezzo oyster tips, Lisa Shafir raft tips. Magali Regis raft tips. Diana Szatkowski confirmed raft tip: don’t have to braid it if you want it to fall apart.
Alexia & Rose weaving reeds
Ecological City Pageant
Executive Director Felicia Young, Earth Celebrations, Operations Manager: Zoë Rhinehart. Cargo bike driver.
Raft Chasers
DD Maucher, Deb Lee, Lisa Mermelsten, Chana Widawski, Two Pageanters unidentified, Maika’i Tubbs
Chana & Deb Chasing the floating-away-w-tide-Gaia bioremediation sculpture
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