One last baby…

A tomato foetus harvested from Griffintown, October 2… pickled and now slowly deteriorating. Kinder/Garden is packed up and closed for the season.

Mad science?

Check out this wonderful post about our show in Edmonton by Visualeyez animator Cindy Baker…

Culinary Cultures in the Kinder/Garden at Visualeyez 2010

Kelly and I grew culture(s) in Edmonton’s Latitude 53 gallery.  Who knew that bacteria could make such great performance artists? Agar – my favourite new medium…

Kinder/Garden in this city and that one…

Kinder/Garden has been on hiatus for most of the summer. I’ve been busy preparing for the Possible Movements show at FOFA Gallery (on now!) among other projects. However, last month Kelly and I got word that we have been invited to Edmonton to participate in Visualeyez at Latitude 53. With no time to start new [...]

Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech

This is a reminder that this Saturday, I’ll be presenting Kinder/Garden in Arts interdisciplinaires: Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech?. The panel (11:30 at the MAI) is called Wetwares: When biology and art meet, and five of us will discuss our work from Tagny Duff’s Bioart class.

Go outside and play!

Squash land is no longer. Kelly has given up her space for the summer and thrips were seriously sucking the life out of the remaining curcubits. The flowers were full of the tiny insects and I believe they were causing the last batch of squash to shrivel. Still, they might had been responsible for some [...]

In a pickle

Making pickles (without much flavour)… clockwise from top left: assembled ingredients; boiling vinegar/salt/water and heating jars; processing raw-packed pickles; cooling the babies. My lovely yellow babies turn white with exposure (to light) – there’s an assimilation metaphor in there somewhere…

This week in the Greenhouse

One of the Magda hybrids will finally carry a fully formed baby to term. Previous attempts with the other moulds yielded unrecognizable (but tasty!) monsters or the fruit shrivelled and died (see right) – possibly due to premature moulding or failed pollination… I’ve moved the surveillance toward growing tomatoes. There are lots – we didn’t [...]

Success!

… but now what? pickling or formaldehyde? And here’s another on the way… a spaghetti squash, I think…

I ate my first baby…

I’ve been too busy to post, but am still making regular trips to the nursery. Last April 19th I harvested the first (two) zucchini babies. (Shown above, only one) Unfortunately, these first veggies pushed open their moulds and began growing out the sides and bottoms before developing heads. The results were so far from the [...]