Enjoy a symbiosis with plants
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Harmut Stockter creates works that denounce a certain loss of nature, while offering concrete tools to rediscover it. His Plant Backpack is a transportable greenhouse with an attached breathing mask that transfers fresh oxygen from the plants to the carrier, when walking around in the poluted air of the urban space.
One of them is the Private Cartographer’s Hot Air Balloon, a giant balloon, which floats under the ceiling of the gallery. The balloon has built-in mirrors which enable the visitor "wearing" it to watch himself from above, wandering in nature and thereby obtaining a conformation of his actual presence in nature. The exhibit at the Kirkhoff gallery (Copenhagen) runs till April 22. Via Angermann2. |
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No way that thing produces oxygen at the rate humans metabolize it. You'll asphyxiate after running though the air in the box. The less eco-sexy algea would do a much better job than that plant, but even then it'd be insufficient. I guess that's why it's art, not science, but the scientific pretense is both misleading and annoying.
This is not about science, or making something that makes sense in scientific terms. This ART makes a comment about the state of our world and our enviroment, its a metaphorical statement about how we are treating our earth. I dont think you have understood the point of this object. Not everything has to follow the rational scientific order humans have set out for themselves.