Скачать или смотреть O Music of Eyes by Deborah O'Grady, Shirley Alexander Watts, and Shane Myrbeck

Video by Jim Mayer of Ideas in Motion

A visit to the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley will reveal a number of surprises not usually found in the garden—a series of new installations from a group of uncommonly bright and creative minds in the fields of arts and science. Natural Discourse: Artists, Architects, Scientists & Poets in the Garden is a collaborative project between The University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (UCBG) and a multi-disciplinary group of artists, writers, architects and researchers who have been invited to spend time in UCBG's extraordinary collection of plants, engage with the horticulturalists and develop new site specific work. The resulting works are as varied and multi-dimensional as the individuals who created the pieces.

Mary Anne Friel, Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, and Shirley Watts, award-winning Bay Area Landscape Designer, curated the exhibition which opened to the public July 14, 2012 and ends January 20, 2013.

Participating artists are Mary Anne Friel, Todd Gilens, Matt Suib, Nadia Hironaka, Hazel White, Denise Newman, Deborah O'Grady, Ron Real, Viginia San Fratello, Gail Wight, Nami Yamamoto, Mitch Maher, Shirley Watts, Shane Myrbeck and Jane Flint.


The UC Botanical Garden is a non-profit research garden and museum for the University of California at Berkeley, having a notably diverse plant collection including many rare and endangered plants. Established in 1890, the Garden, which is open to the public year round, has over 13,000 different kinds of plants from around the world, cultivated by region in naturalistic landscapes over its 34 acres.