Installation

The Living Canvas 🌱

This was an installation that my Student Teacher classmates and I had put up in the

gallery of the National Institute of Education, NIE. After some brainstorming,

I am grateful that they have all voted to realise this exhibition idea, which I have came

up with for our group project. The theme is related to Land Art (or Environmental Art)

It is also a piece of minimalist living artwork.

I am also grateful that we have members in our team who drive and are streetwise as

they helped to take care of the logistics. For weeks, we soaked the pea sprouts seeds (豆苗)

in a classroom then transferred then into boxes once they started to sprout into seedings.

After some time, we unboxed these young seedings and planted them on the gallery floor.

Daily consistent farming and watering became a labour intensive toil above our heavy studyload.

Around a month later, the lines of early planted pea shoots closest to the window

were ready for harvest by the time for our assessment. We invited everyone in NIE

to share our harvest with a publicity poster that my team member had designed.

This had been a super memorable and exiciting teamwork!

We were the happiest when everyone in our team received an A grade!   ^ - ^

Final presentation of our artwork:

Differentiated planting time  =  a beautiful contrast of growing stages:

Dense network of roots that makes this piece a living artwork:

How everything started:

The day before our assessment aka harvest:

The day of harvest -

pea sprouts takeaway anyone?

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