Environmental Art 102- planning our own- By Larkin B.

In early March, Tucker River Fellows met with environmental artist, Hollie Berry, at the Chattanooga WorkSpace to discuss the plans for their own environmental art project. After a tour of the building and Hollie's art studio, we gathered and decided to create a flower mandala. The mandala is an informational project in which we collect flowers to form a geometric design. In this meeting we decided the design, size, and flowers of the mandala.

 
To create the piece we will collect native (not too many!) and invasive flowers in our local area. Once the flowers are collected we will press them in a plant press for a few days. After this step we will take two thin pieces of glass and seal the mandala design. These projects will be hung around our GPS campus; to ensure the color will last the pieces will be put out of direct sunlight.