Celeste Chiguichon is a second year volunteer at the ago youth council. She is a visual artist who loves learning about plants and our relationship to the earth. While finding peace and mindfulness in working with soil/greenery, she hopes to offer a calming practice to ground and grow along side with plant friends. This week, she teaches us how to regrow groceries to connect more to our food and appreciate the process behind each plate.

Contemporary Argentinian artist Adrian Villar Rojas builds mythical worlds (that are still grounded in reality) out of clay and organic materials.

Today We Reboot the Planet II is about the creation of monuments, the fate of the planet and our environment. Villar Rojas imagines what kind of fossils and objects we’ll leave behind and what our legacy as humans will be when we’re long gone. Sitting atop a brick walkway are shelves filled with living and growing items (sprouting potatoes) and relics of humanity (car tires, a mummified Kurt Cobain).

And just what is the mummified rock star all about? The artist has revealed that Kurt Cobain, the grunge band Nirvana’s tragic leading man, is one of his biggest influences. Including him in this work is a way to preserve him in memory.  Just as human activity continues to transform the planet, the primary medium Villar Rojas works with, clay, is always changing form.

 

 

 

 

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Celeste Chiguichon is a second year volunteer at the ago youth council. She is a visual artist who loves learning about plants and our relationship to the earth. While finding peace and mindfulness in working with soil/greenery, she hopes to offer a calming practice to ground and grow along side with plant friends. This week, she teaches us how to regrow groceries to connect more to our food and appreciate the process behind each plate.

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