Science and Art Articles:
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My work in education, landscape architecture, and sustainability involves science and art.
Science and art should be done with the motive to love ― to help communities, people, nature, and the world.
The types of science that I do include hands-on, human-scale, naked-eye, outdoor nature science, awareness, observation, knowledge, and facts. In order to make my art, I need to know one or a few of many types of science, including native and exotic plants, native animals, native ecology and habitats, stewardship techniques, economy, conservation, natural resources, hard and soft woods, etc.
The types of art that I do include outdoor nature art, primitive crafts, bushcrafts, the community arts, landscape architecture, and nature classes: the skills of heart-head-and-hands in unison to apply science to make stuff to help to connect, sustain, and enrich communities, people, and nature. Culture, living, learning, and working to sustain and enrich people and nature within a community landscape.
Definitions:
Science is observation, awareness, knowledge, and education. Science is what you learn (take in) from your community and world. "Science is learning the patterns of nature and how nature works." ― Carl Sagan. Science is observation, exploration, research, curiosity, awareness, record, report, discovery, experiment, study, questions, knowledge, experience, wisdom, understanding, facts, theories, truths, and learning the patterns of nature and how nature works, how people can cooperate together to form sustainable communities, how human communities can live in harmony with habitats and ecologies, how cultures and educations and economies affect communities and people and nature, etc.
Art is expression, creativity, building, working, and applying science to make things. Art is working to make (give out) things for your community and world. Good art is art "in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together." ― John Ruskin. Art is expression, creativity, designing, building, working, doing, action, caretaking, stewarding, and applying science to make things ― good art includes art of pleasing form and function, or appropriate form and function. Art is a unique thing that a person or people handmakes. Art is not factory mass-produced identical items. For instance, every handmade basket is at least slightly unique from other baskets. Plus, art is not limited to touchable items (paintings, sculptures, baskets, houses, etc.): art can also be untouchable forms of expression, such as dance, music, culture, morals, storytelling, and facial expressions. Science and art overlap, in that both science and art include experiment, experience, discovery, wisdom, understanding, and education. Science and art should be done with the motive to love ― to help communities, people, nature, and the world.
Above photo: Science and art united. Students doing science: learning about the invasive bittersweet vine, in Michigan. A student doing art: making the bittersweet vine in to a basket. Further science and art: landcare: removing invasive species and using what we remove to make stuff for people: we helped both people and nature.
Science and Art Articles:
www.z-hub.org/zle-blog/2SciArt.html
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