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Richard Long 

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Urs Fischer

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Osaka World Expo 1970 

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121231 - Benjamin Edwards’ work since the early 1990’s has explored what he calls “the architecture of suburbia” - the forms found in strip malls, fast-food joints, gas stations, motels and other familiar citadels of consumerism. Accompanying this architecture is what Edwards refers to as “the iconography of the roadway”, of artificial elements, commercial signs and highway symbols, juxtaposed with the natural scene or environment. In order to gather material for his work, Edwards has taken a number of cross-country road trips, searching out the “roadside life that almost exists in a separate channel.” Along the way, he takes photos with his digital camera and keeps detailed logs and diaries containing “location notes,” recording where he stops, where he stays, and what he buys. The digital photos are loaded into his computer. He subsequently selects various elements in the photos, isolates them, and reduces them to the basic geometry found in the subject. Once he makes his selections, he projects the design elements onto a canvas, incorporating as many as three hundred separate photos into a single painting. The result is a conflated composition, which becomes emblematic of what he refers to as the “American consumerist utopia.”

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Victory Gardens

War gardens were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted in bomb craters and public parks in London during  World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort. As well as providing food to the citizens, growing vegetables in allotments was also seen as a moral booster, in that gardeners could feel empowered by their contribution of labour and rewarded by the produce grown.