Talk about mixed media. Using an inventive photographic technique, British artists Heather Ackroyd and Daniel Harvey project light through negatives onto giant sheets of germinating "stay green" grass provided by the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research in Wales. The patches of lawn, cultivated indoors, grow according to exposure - the areas that receive more light produce more chlorophyll and are darker in color. Because this breed of grass lacks an enzyme that breaks down chlorophyll, the intricately shaded living pictures don't fade as quickly as they would if they were in your own yard; the designs last about four weeks. "Our work speaks to the equally desperate human quests to preserve art and the beautiful, nonurban ground beneath our feet," Ackroyd says. In October, Ackroyd and Harvey will exhibit grassified reproductions of antique lace and text from an early edition of Dante's Divine Comedy at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (www.gardnermuseum.org) - it's the duo's first US solo show.
ELECTRIC WORD
Spring Bake
In The Out Door
Wind Instruments
Photosynthesis
Mockroach
Inside Track
