Title: Can You Hear Us?

Date: 2019

Medium: Installation - Acrylic, etched wood, metal

Artist: Miyuki Kasahara

Exhibition: Blue Sky Gardening, 2021

From press release:

Can You Hear Us? leads you on a trail around the garden to follow a conversation between plants and insects. Through dialogue on wooden speech bubbles, you hear about how communication has been disturbed by pollution, how mobile phone traffic has messed up mapping signals and how pesticide has become so addictive.

Can You Hear Us?proposes a less visible garden – made up of plant and insect communication. It was first exhibited as part of ‘SWARM – Artists respond to the pollinator crisis’ at the Vestry House Museum, 2019.

From artist:

Miyuki Kasahara’s  Can You Hear Us? (2019) leads you on a trail around the garden to follow a conversation between plants and pollinating insects. Through dialogue on wooden speech bubbles, you hear about how communication has been disturbed by pollution, mobile phone traffic has messed up mapping signals and how pesticide has become so addictive.

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https://www.miyukikasahara.com

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