Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Alright.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): So for week one, we want to try to be as light hearted and chill as possible so we can talk about nature inspired arts. I'll be me. Shelby Charla interested in presenting
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Slide
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): So first of all, we want to acknowledge that as an organization with a land grant institution. Take the campus garden coalition I UCLA acknowledge the gap between oh and tell people as a traditional land caretaker of Tovar aka Los Angeles Basin and so called Channel Islands.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): First of all, I'm gonna look at a little bit of art history of nature and are so from the earliest cave painting depicting haunting things to photograph that we have nowadays.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): We always use art as a way to express when they trimmings to us if you can see on the right. The first picture was created in the 15th century, during that time.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Despite the fact that nature is all around us. It was actually not particularly popular source of inspiration for artists, basically because it was considered too lowly to be focused of a painting in its own right.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): But a lot of things change during the seventh century. As you can see, the second picture.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Now has many of us probably have seen this before, but in the painting nature was the main focus of the art.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Next slide.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And the China of using nature gather pays over time, particularly with the invention of ting tubes, because after that artists can go outside and actually capture nature, while they're sitting in it.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Like the picture on the right. The first one is, I think it's called a forest during sunset and it's captured wild artists is in the nature.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And after the 19th and 20th century, the development of photograph photography meant that nature could be captured as it as to us. It is so as you can see on the bottom. This picture was taken in the 90. Does anyone want to take a guess of where this is. Or if you know where it is.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Oh, okay.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): I don't know. Where's Horseshoe Bend, but maybe it is
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): I just know that the name of this photo is called Canyon in Arizona. So I think both Alma, and as enter your answers properly. Right. So after that.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): The use of nurturing our has become a long way from the days when it has considered too important to be bought or with
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Now it's more than just a backdrop or something that's purely aesthetic. It's a way of showcasing the beauty of our planning and a crucial tool in ensuring that we do all we can to protect and preserve our environment.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): With that being said, we have a lot of interesting sample today.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Of all very different kinds of nature inspired art.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): So I'm gonna let Charlotte, take it away.
Charlotte she/her: Hello.
Charlotte she/her: I'm the first example that we have here is
Charlotte she/her: Natural jewelry and they're like a couple main categories of natural jewelry. But, um, the first is the actual use of flowers like dried flowers as we did last quarter and
Charlotte she/her: So as you can see in the bottom right, and are pretty much just on the right hand side, these are all made of resin.
Charlotte she/her: They're all from Etsy. I just took a bunch of like super cute ones, and I put them on here. So if you guys want to go look for them, like, by all means. Yeah, I love it too.
Charlotte she/her: So the ones on the right are made out of resin. So they dry flowers and they put them in this like kind of like plasticky substance and it holds them in. I'm actually wearing on right now that have
Charlotte she/her: High school friend of mine made
Charlotte she/her: And so those are super pretty. And they actually use real
Charlotte she/her: Real plants, whereas there's also natural jewelry or there's also jewelry that just depicts
Charlotte she/her: Mushrooms or blackberries or flowers which is on the left hand side here. So it just depicts nature in different ways. And I really love those mushroom ones. So yeah, that's it's cool that there's many different types of natural Julie and different ways to make it
Charlotte she/her: Cool.
Justin Haggard (he/him): Cool. And then I was just going to talk a little about flower tattoos and kind of nature inspired tattoos.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And I was kind of looking at the history of tattoos and it became really obvious really fast that it doesn't only go back really far like in terms of
Justin Haggard (he/him): Tattoos showing up in ancient civilizations and stuff, but it was also super widespread so
Justin Haggard (he/him): Instead of kind of giving a history about it, which would take a long time. I just wanted to highlight a modern artists that's working with tattoos and art. So this is
Justin Haggard (he/him): A tattoo artist named Rick kit, and I believe she's in Bali now but it's kind of cool because they use this method where they like put ink on the back of pressed leaves and flowers and then use that as a stencil for the actual tattoos. So
Justin Haggard (he/him): You gotta just wanted to highlight that.
Charlotte she/her: Okay, cool. There's several so you can just go one
Charlotte she/her: And just, okay, that works. So these are all just recycled pieces of art.
That
Charlotte she/her: People would take plastic off of beaches and create art out of it. I've done this a couple times with different organizations, but it's a fun way just to like, show off one like how
Charlotte she/her: How much trash. There is within the ocean. I'm not quite sure if all those plastic bottles are from the ocean, just because they're all the same, but anyway.
Charlotte she/her: Just to depict like how much plastic there is and also create something that's beautiful out of it just to show people
Charlotte she/her: Yeah, and next more recycled art. So there's this awesome woman. She's in the left here. I love her. I follow her on Instagram. She's at pet teat Platt.
Charlotte she/her: If you want to know, after I can show you. So she uses like old recycled stuff, such as
Charlotte she/her: Like this old scuba mask or old tin cans or old plastic bottles and she'll make art on top of it. So it's like ceramics or molds and social just
Charlotte she/her: Put that on the bottles and it just like looks so cool of things.
Charlotte she/her: May for putting that out. And if you click one more. She also does watercolor
Charlotte she/her: And it's all just a
Charlotte she/her: Nature inspired and they're so beautiful. So yeah, very cool and
Justin Haggard (he/him): I also just wanted to talk a little about
Justin Haggard (he/him): Like some pretty simple crafts that can be kind of scaled up so I'm sure a lot of you remember kind of pressing flowers and making bookmarks out of them in elementary school or middle school.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And then some artists kind of take that further so they can make ones out of resin or kind of make more complex designs out of them. And so these are just some ideas to inspire you all as well.
Charlotte she/her: Okay, cool.
Charlotte she/her: Then there's
Charlotte she/her: Also another person at Instagram with the at Forest like fairy tale, and she uses fun guy and other natural products that she finds just walking through
Charlotte she/her: The forest and creates like this, these beautiful
Charlotte she/her: Photographs, and if you keep going forward. There's a couple more.
Charlotte she/her: It's just cool is that, like we could all do this walk into the forest and find just beautiful, fun guy and create
Charlotte she/her: beautiful landscapes and there's also a guy who my aunt just told me about who goes around Long Beach and takes contracts and creates a
Charlotte she/her: Giant sculptures with them. So it's pretty cool if anyone was in Long Beach. Maybe you've seen them before. But his name is Glenn man so yeah I'm different ways of using plants and art.
Charlotte she/her: This of course goes for back to
Justin Haggard (he/him): And then there's also
Justin Haggard (he/him): Painting on leaves and I thought this was pretty interesting. I kind of found this as I was searching around
Justin Haggard (he/him): For like painting on nature itself. So these are all painted on people leaves which are it's. It comes from a species of fig that's native to India.
Justin Haggard (he/him): And and it's kind of interesting because these leaves also have medicinal properties and the bark of the tree does as well. And it also has it's been mentioned.
Justin Haggard (he/him): I think it has like religious contexts and stuff as well. In Hinduism. So it's kind of interesting to think of like art intersecting nature and then also you know nature intersecting with religion and social context as well so
Charlotte she/her: Okay, this is a pretty cool one.
Charlotte she/her: So this is called bio suffocation. It's where they hook up mushrooms to this giant machine back here and we'll listen to it, and then I'll try to explain it a bit.
Justin Haggard (he/him): Justin.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): SOUND
Charlotte she/her: Yeah, it's pretty cool. A lot of people actually have created music off of those like interesting beats, but I'm just to explain what's going on.
Charlotte she/her: I listen to someone talk about it. And actually, the guy who talked about it. It's the second video down there. It's called How the f doesn't mushroom play Euro. Euro rack. If you
Charlotte she/her: Want to hear a little bit more about it from someone who's done it a lot more, but this is pretty much it measures the resistance using the mushroom as a resistor which
Charlotte she/her: I hope some of you have taken physics. So, you know, resistors and so it the mushroom changes resistance through changes in nutrients and water transport as well as electrical communications so it can this machine can like sense the changes and then the the
Charlotte she/her: Than the noise will change on that little device there.
Charlotte she/her: So it's pretty cool. And if you definitely look up more if you want to hear more mushroom music or if you just want to understand a bit more but it's pretty cool. Justin showed me
Justin Haggard (he/him): Okay, and then
Justin Haggard (he/him): Another kind of subset of nature, art is like seed carving and fruit pick carving. So I actually seen someone carving like designs into seeds at the heirloom Expo. But I went
Justin Haggard (he/him): But for some reason, I could not find them on internet. So I was kind of looking around at other fruit pit carvings and this is a lady that does it in China and
Justin Haggard (he/him): I guess it. It's a very ancient practice there. I was kind of learning about it. I didn't know this and and they're super intricate and detailed. As you can see in the picture on the left. So yeah, and Alexander says the seeds are worth a lot in China. Yeah.
Justin Haggard (he/him): But they're very pretty. And I just thought it was kind of cool to see
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): All right.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And then we can look
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): At some nature inspired media. First of all, I don't know how many of you have watched this movie. So it just came out during the holidays. It was so good.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): I'm not going to spoil it for people who have seen it. But there's a saying one, the main character realized the meaning of life through watching a leaf falling down and there was just a really beautiful movie.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And next one I'm totally serious
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And the next one.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Yeah, those are they showing spike media that I can think of. And on the next slide. I put in a short video of nature that animated
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Movie, so we can just watch for a sec.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): I think
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): He I, yeah, I see on the chat. I feel the same to whenever I see people depicting nature in anime or movies or TV shows, which is really nice and. Next slide.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): I'm also want to
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Oh yeah, Karen said this video behind your name made many of these he they are good movies and also want to quickly talk about environmental and eco art.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): So they're not necessarily made with nature and related items, but they're definitely trying to bring more awareness to save our planet and stuff. So the first one, you'll probably have seen
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): It was definitely inspired by this Japanese Painting cutaways and the next one.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): This was in exhibition and artists actually use toxic runoff from Ohio River to May this Pittman, the boat yellows and reds are sourced from oxidized sludge that are from abandoned coal mines.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And the next one.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): This exhibition is called your waste of time.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And artists olafur displaces the piece of ice are actually from the Iceland's used to be Iceland's largest glacier.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): By died last year.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And it was displayed
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): It will displays in a got a gallery powered by solar panels and they were just reminding people of how humans existence has impacted her so much.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): The next one.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): He he inspired furniture. I find this picture of this table, together with the chairs and i think is so beautiful. And the next one is actually still a
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): If you're following you silly means you're probably thinking, yesterday, someone saying that usually spend money on this is questionable, but this isn't Heidrick study if you're a freshman and haven't been there yet. It's just a giant table made of wood.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): When you're walking in.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And the next one.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Is a internal design that I really like us off with and the huge window that you can see the outside so quick.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): History about the psychological explanation behind why people like to nature in their furniture and design is that
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): There are scientific studies proving that being closer to nature, whether in the form of houseplants or natural light is very beneficial to people's health and a landmark study in
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Found that children, Denmark, who has been exposed to more greenery had 55% less mental health problem later in their life. And there's also another study that had plans to productivity. So if you think you can focus now maybe it's just because you don't have enough plans, you know,
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Okay, next slide.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And lastly, my last point was this very cool art tech nature thing that went out last year actually with UCLA botanical garden.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And it's called ours electronica garden. I can send a link in the chat in a bit, but the UCLA art, science center.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): presented this card to look vibration in the botanical garden and with a lot of artists from all around the world.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): The first picture you can see here with the flowers is a workshop called solidarity through sounds and time and it's about something that it's separating sound from memory and their tonal structured it sounds really cool. And the one on the right.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Is another workshop talking about how fun guys shape the world and how they're taking the shape of the future.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): So I'll send the link in the chat. The entire series is really cool. And you can see Botanical Garden being featured on there several times and Shelby will also be mentioning it in the next slide.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): Okay, so, um,
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): I'm going to talk a little bit about music, inspired by nature.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And music that comes like straight from nature. So kind of similar to like the device that Charlotte showed earlier with like the BIOS on vacation and mushrooms. There's actually a lot of devices like that.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And I can't totally explain how they work. Because honestly, I don't really understand how they work, but
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): Somewhere, it said that they convert the electrical conductivity of claims into audio and then play it for you. So that's what this box on the left is
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): Usually they'll have like little alligator clips and equip them to plants.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And then like the sounds of the plans make change with like the time of day or the amount of light or like a breeze.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And some even mentioned that the sound would completely change when like a certain person walked into the room, which I feel like it's kind of similar to that idea that like you should talk to your plants because the vibrations of your voice like affect them in positive ways
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): So an example of this is this video link Justin. If you could click it. It's a performance from the festival that may just talked about. So they're actually using plants in the UCLA Botanical Garden. So we'll just watch like the first like three minutes, maybe
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Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): So it's really cool. And I'll it's a 30 minute video, so I'll post the link in the chat if you're interested in seeing the rest
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): But it's kind of cool because you can see like the one girls like touching the plants to try and change their sound because it does change their sound and I like affected by that kind of thing. So yeah, I just thought that was really cool and it sounds really pretty.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): But if you're interested in this one of like the most popular like little box things that they used to do. This is called the plant wave
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): I think it's like $200. I'm not sure. But, um, and then this other picture that I put on the right.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): Is kind of unrelated, but this was at the beginning of quarantine, when an orchestra had nobody to play for so they filled the whole audience with plants and I thought was really cute.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): Okay, you can go there.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): So there's also nature inspired fashion and makeup.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): So there's like a ton of different cultures around the world who make their clothing directly from plant plants and other resources like straight from the environment and I pictured, some of them here. So there's some examples from different Polynesian Hispanic and African cultures.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): To incorporate like plants and flowers directly into their clothing or make clothing inspired by them. And then there's also like it's kind of popular right now. I feel like to do like nature inspired looks in high fashion, which I have three of them the right here.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And then also, like, even though we might not always be aware
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): A lot of the clothes that we wear it comes straight from nature. Things like cotton and silk obviously not close that have like plastic fibers in them. But yeah, a lot of like our everyday clothing, even though we might not know it is directly from nature.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): Next slide.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And then there's also dried and pressed flowers and plants. So one really popular art form that uses press flowers is called Oceana it started in Japan in the 16th century.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And essentially, they only use like press flowers and plants and they make them into like some sort of scene. So there's two pictures in the top row on the right.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): That are examples of it. And there's also like more modern forms of it too. It's a practice that's kind of carried on like carried through the centuries and
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): It also inspired like press flower art, just in general, it was kind of like the first use of it.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And then as you saw earlier like press flowers can be made into bookmarks or they can be put in frames and like displayed on your wall. They can be putting candles or you can like put them in your phone case.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And then they can also be made into sculptures.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): Which I if you have the patience. You might be able to do it at home, but this picture on the left is
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): A press flower sculpture from artists Ignacio canal is our seal.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And they are just as fragile as even think they are, but they're really pretty. And if you want to check out his work. I can also post his name in the chat.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And then they can also be made into things like stickers last quarter. We did a workshop on press flowers. So if you weren't there for that and you're interested in it. It's in our archive on our website. We just did like some crafts with press flowers and then with dried flowers to
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): They're using like a lot of ways, like just to be displayed around people's homes. Some people pop them like they pop live flowers or they add them to they use them as like accents to wrap gifts.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): Some people hanging from string like a garland and some people dry them and turn them into tease depending on the flower and if it's edible.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): But just a Google search comes up with like so many ideas of what you can do with dried and collect press flowers. If you're interested in. So I recommend looking at up if you're interested in it. Next slide.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And then the last form of art that will talk about his paper making. So the art of paper makings first started in Asia, and it was introduced to Europe 1000 1000 years later.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): It started out with like Bamboo, silk and tree bark and other plant materials that were made into paper.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): In Europe, they didn't have those materials so they used a method where they like turn cotton and linen rags into paper pope and use that to make paper.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And there's a lot of artists, they use a lot of different methods and still make can make paper out of, like, all kinds of different fibers today.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And there's even ways like to make your own recycled paper at home with just like a blender and a screen, you just like blend paper and water, essentially.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): So if you're interested in that. You can also do that.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): And then another nature related paper making crafts that I included is making paper flowers.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): I learned how to do this like at the beginning quarantine just as a fun thing and I really recommend it.
Dig - Shelby Mathews (she/her): It's really fun to like make for your friends are like to give as gifts or just to like display in your room and there's a bunch of tutorials on YouTube. And so, so yeah go the next slide.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): So thanks for listening. I hope that was fun.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Maybe you find something that you like to try or five for Betsy, the earrings and I know that we're past 1pm already. So if you have other things, feel free to hop off in time, but the next 10 minutes we're going to dedicate to making some art.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): About nature ourselves so we need his pencil and paper pen is also ok
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): And go to the next slide.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Will be scratching your favorite tree.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): It sounds intimidating, but it will be very easy. There's a step by step guide. So if you never scratch anything before or
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): I know that all of you want to say like, I'm not good with art. It's okay. So we're going to start with. Think about your favorite tree.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): It can be like a real type of tree or it can be actually how you imagined or combination. So yeah, just think about it and try not to search an image, you have if you have to. It's okay to. And while you have a tree in mind.
Dig-Yuerong (she/they): Justin, can you click on the link and go to the website.