Field Trip Tomorrow

Due next week..

Botanic Gardens Edites

WORD edites-- Element and principal

To work on next weekend or ASAP.. Spirituality shoot. They will be displayed in the gallery

MORE IDEAS for the botanic field trip

-Reflections/ translucency in water

-Geometric shapes vs Organic shapes

-Secret/Intimate spaces

-light and shadow by manmade and/or natural objects and structures

-signage- handwritten or typed messages about plants

-stillness/silence

-perspective/ plants in rows and lines/ structures organized in a grid

-interactive plants    or poisonous/dangerous plants you can’t touch

-mathematical structure of flowers (spiral, radial)

-color theory in gardens

-history of the gardens (english, japanese, sensory, rose, heritage) what makes them what they are? (research ahead of time to document examples)

-juxtaposition   what can you insert/engage into the foliage or imagery that would be unexpected or opposite (done after the field trip with Photoshop, Illustrator or hand rendered)

-color matching   what can you find that exactly matches the colors you find in the gardens? (done after the field trip with Photoshop, Illustrator or hand rendered)

-forced perspective/ scale  how can you use natural spaces or objects to play with scale and perspective?

-movement of things in the wind or because of the water

-names of the plants… why are they named what they are? What's the background/story behind it?

-location on the globe the plants are from  How did it come to be that we can grow cacti in the middle of winter or we use herbs that originated from across the globe?

-maps and charts for gardening/horticulture (done after the field trip with Photoshop, Illustrator or hand rendered)