EcoArt: Greening Our Home

Evolution of Art

EcoArt: Greening Our Home  

Dr Abe V Rotor

Aesthetics and function in greening our home lifts the soul;
    green the most restful color, soothing, easy to the eye;
buffer against noise, dust and wind, cleanliness our main goal;

    a world we call home sweet home, in song and smile.

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” – Pedro Calderón de la Barca 

 

Potted plants by the window grill merged into an integral scene of trees and lianas, to connect house and garden

“Live simply so others can simply live.” – Mahatma Gandhi 

 

Left: Potted cactus with "man-heaven- earth" motif.  Right, wind chime hangs on a mural. Together, they welcome guests at the doorway.

Bring nature to your home,

for the elders and children,

through the magic of art

and warmth of a friend

 

 

 

The art in the garden is expressed simply and naturally like the shape and formation of leaves and flowers, type of growth, plant arrangement, singly or in combination.

Indigenous these plants are, their care simple, if needed at all.

lies the secret of green thumb in the Garden before the Fall.    

“Green living is not perfection; it is persistent intention.” – Davina Cole 

 

Trees are clothed with lianas and epiphytes.  On the ground are fern and seasonal plants, Between big trees are shrubs and hedges. Make a group of trees an arboretum or a miniature forest, which also serves as a botanical collection. 

Forest in our garden, around our home,

abode of creatures, tame and wild;

could art enhance this union and harmony,

for man to appreciate and abide?  

“The smallest seed of care can grow forests of renewal.” – Jonah Sylver 

 

Garden pond of Pistia and hornwort

Invigorating emerald green 

carpet of calm and serene;

beneath, fish seldom seen,

divide our world like screen.

"We are not above nature, we are a part of nature." — Jennifer Nini

Now and then there is need to prune the trees.  This allows other plants to grow,

and induce old ones to form new crown.  Cut dead branches for safety reason. 

“Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.” – Christine Pelosi  

  

 Symmetry - radial and bilateral - is key to nature's art.  The garden is also a living laboratory. Study Fibonacci's principle, Linnaeus systematic nomenclature, Darwin's theory, among other studies.

The garden: workshop and laboratory,

art and science, hobby and study;

rules and theory, history and posterity,

knowledge, quest, and mystery.

“A cleaner world starts at home: choose, refuse, repair, repeat.” – Marco Reyes 

Space for a plaza, for picnic, strolling, outdoor game and gathering. 

Reminiscent of Thoreau's Walden*

 a forest clearing gives freedom,

space to reach out to heaven;

from disobedience and boredom.

Walden or Life in the Woods by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The book is about simple living in a natural surrounding. Before settling for a year in the woods, Thoreau wrote a controversial essay, Of Civil Disobedience. ~