LIVING SEATING

idea by ARTblocks Baltimore

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Website

www.artblocks.org

Twitter handle

: ARTblocksbmore

Overview of Outdoor Idea

WARNING: This subversive project will lead to participants of all kinds working together to create LIVING SEATING that will surround Baltimore's first LIVING CHAIR, recently built for readers, story tellers, poets, and musicians to amuse, delight, inform, enlighten, and entertain the community.

The Specifics: What will the $5,000 fund?

Funding will be used to work with the local community to create LIVING BASKET STOOLS from live willow. Planted in the ground, the stools will be woven like baskets and filled with soil in which herb “cushions” will grow, providing a fragrant surprise for participants when they sit down. Funding will also be used for the on-going maintenance of the stools (watering, pruning, etc). Three to five stools will be completed at the weekly Farmers Market that is located, with the project, next to Rawlings Conservatory in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore’s largest urban park. A summertime link to the community’s winter reading program in a nearby mall, the project is an expression of the community’s originality and unique creative vision for itself.

Discussion
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Love the idea and the community involvement BUT it sounds like $5,000 for 3 to 5 stools. I know that is not what you mean. Can you clarify THE SPECIFICS? A pix or drawing of a prototype stool would be good, too.

by french50

10 months ago | Reply

Thanks for your thoughts, french50. Unfortunately, we can't add a photo now, but the specifics are that the stools will be made from living willow uprights planted in the ground in a circle. Willows will then be woven through the uprights, as you would for a basket. When the desired height is reached, the baskets will be filled with soil, the uprights crossed to form a seat, and thyme will be planted on the top. We plan to create 3-5 stools a week for a total of 18-20 stools.

by ARTblocks Baltimore

10 months ago | Reply

by ARTblocks Baltimore

10 months ago | Reply

chesapeakesun, thanks so much for your kind words of support! Don't forget to vote, and please ask your friends to vote too!

by ARTblocks Baltimore

10 months ago | Reply

What a wonderful idea! I love the tying the living chair and community story telling together. I am so heartened to know there are smart people, doing good things for the community.

by chesapeakesun

11 months ago | Reply

As you can see from the photo, seating for participants is badly needed. To that end, we plan to complete 3-5 basket stools per week for a total of approximately 18-20 stools that will sit on a "rug" created by mulch recycled from dead trees in the park.

by ARTblocks Baltimore

11 months ago | Reply