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May 10/09

Follow the results of Garden Gnomad’s travels, by watching this album of Garden Gnomad Postcards (click on the above image).

Follow the ideas and comments about the project here:

http://gardengnomad.wordpress.com/

April 20/09

Garden Gnomad is visiting community gardens and other sites of urban agriculture in 2009 to take photos, leave photo postcards and have a conversation.

More information: about_gardengnomad

If you would like Garden Gnomad to visit you in your garden or field, please contact Lois Klassen – loiszing[at]telus.net

April 6/09

Garden Gnomad is nearly ready to visit farms & gardens in the city. Follow the blog and contact Lois Klassen to arrange a visit to your site of urban agriculture! loiszing[at]telus[dot]net.

http://gardengnomad.wordpress.com/

Mar 4/09

Garden Gnomad Research & Development is continuing here at the Banff New Media Institute (for the month of March). To enable more space for the observations and outcomes, visit this dedicated blog:

http://gardengnomad.wordpress.com/

A wandering garden archival system by Lois Klassen to interview and document community gardeners in Vancouver- coming soon!

Feb 17/09 – I am off to the Liminal Screen Residency at the Banff Centre this week. It is the site for the fine tuning of this creature called GG… I will try to keep this blog active with developments and discoveries.

Garden Gnomad in progress

GG's power

This is how far I’ve got with the Garden Gnomad so far. Thank you to Carl Wiebe for joining me in R&D and for doing most of the construction this weekend. A nice coincidence was reading about & seeing the work of a couple of collaborating artist family teams last week: the Boyle Family (quite an approach to landscape!) and the Bomford father & sons, whose work Office of Special Plans is now showing at the Vancouver Art Gallery. (Here is a link to a similar work that they built at the Or Gallery: For Fools & Traitors Nothing)

I took one of my sons and his friends to see Office of Special Plans last week. We were all inspired by the seriously extravagent approach to play that was made real in the work. After hearing Cedric Bomford speak of the hard work (over a year? two?) that they all had to devote to this construction, I thought that working in a team makes for greater committment to the project and greater ambition in the vision.

Office of Special Plans is like a very ambitious tree fort, all of it constructed from reclaimed plywood and boards. GG is nowhere near as extravagant, but I do want it to invite outdoor, environmental fun and exploration somehow. It has a long way to go!

LK