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...grass. And no, not photographs of grass, but a photographic process using grass as a sort of photo paper. Ackroyd and Harvey have created a method in which the photosynthesis of grass is used to make an image. The artists plant grass in clay screens and expose the grass to an image as it grows. Depending on the amount of light different areas receive the blades will develop different pigmentation. Less light turns the grass to a white or yellow; more light means more different intensities of green...
Though the process of creating a grass photo itself is something of a science, Ackroyd and Harvey turned to purely scientific enquiry to overcome a flaw in the material. Like photographic paper, an image printed on grass will fade if it is not fixed in some way. The images Ackroyd and Harvey created would last only as long as the chlorophyll (the green pigment) lived. Once the grass died, so did the chlorophyll and the image would fade in a relatively short period of time, several months at most. So Ackroyd and Harvey teamed up with scientists to overcome...
Selected for the Gardner’s artist-in-residence program, Ackroyd and Harvey spent last March living in an apartment perched—appropriately—above the gardens and greenhouse of the Gardner. The program allows resident artists to take inspiration from some aspect, work or artist in the museum. During their stay they created the seven photos printed on “stay-green” grass that are now on view in Presence. This was not the first time either artist had worked with grass. In fact, both were already working in the medium when...
...inspirational features that Ackroyd and Harvey focused on was role that light played in the Gardner. Light is both a destructive force and one that allows creation. In the Gardner this dual nature of light is particularly evident. Many of the masterpieces that it houses, particularly Rembrandts’ work, are stunning examples of art’s ability to capture the ephemeral nature of light. At the same time, the museum must constantly fight to protect those same works and their many tapestries from the decay that overexposure to sun will accelerate. In Harvey and Ackroyd?...
Ackroyd and Harvey used as the subjects of their photographs people and objects that inhabit the Gardner. The two largest pieces face each other and have a particularly compelling relationship. One, a triptych on hinges, is comprised of three panels: a bookshelf in the museum at the center and the exit doors on the side panels. Facing that piece is “Script.” As if one had been able to open a book on the photographed shelf “Script” displays a close up of an excerpted passage from Dante?...