Comments on: Mark Dion | “Neukom Vivarium” http://blog.art21.org/2008/05/22/mark-dion-%e2%80%9cneukom-vivarium%e2%80%9d/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the Art in the Twenty-First Century PBS series Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:23:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Marge Levy http://blog.art21.org/2008/05/22/mark-dion-%e2%80%9cneukom-vivarium%e2%80%9d/#comment-8069 Marge Levy Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:19:34 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/05/22/mark-dion-%e2%80%9cneukom-vivarium%e2%80%9d/#comment-8069 Changes...well, the visitors have changes a bit. In the beginning it was a wild range of curious types from all walks of life and now we see more intergenerational families who have made the Olympic Sculpture Park a family destination. There are many more people who have heard about the Vivarium or Mark Dino too. Physically, the exhibition is very healthy with little dirt showing and the plants getting more entwined. The artist conks are bigger and the sprouting firs, hemlocks, alders, spruce and cedar are still cute young things with all the character they will have as big trees. The red elderberry keeps growing by leaps and leaps and we have to cut it down or trim it periodically. We have had some new plants emerge that were not there earlier: False Salomon Seal and Goat's Beard. The Oregon Grape and the Salal have berries that look good enough to eat! The Banana Slug population grew too large and we treated some of them to a beer party...and the population, now diminished, is down to a hardy sober smaller number. Only abstainers survived I think. In my orange vest I have to be a teacher and guide so I have learned about more of the backgrounds of the botanists, ecologists, preservationists, and artists that Mark listed in tiles on the walls. learning that stuff takes dedication In general,I like being the interpreter of the work and like talking to people. I knew little about native plants when I started and know a lot now...and have planted a native garden at my own home. Please do drop in on SUnday afternoons and visit! Changes…well, the visitors have changes a bit. In the beginning it was a wild range of curious types from all walks of life and now we see more intergenerational families who have made the Olympic Sculpture Park a family destination. There are many more people who have heard about the Vivarium or Mark Dino too.

Physically, the exhibition is very healthy with little dirt showing and the plants getting more entwined. The artist conks are bigger and the sprouting firs, hemlocks, alders, spruce and cedar are still cute young things with all the character they will have as big trees.

The red elderberry keeps growing by leaps and leaps and we have to cut it down or trim it periodically. We have had some new plants emerge that were not there earlier: False Salomon Seal and Goat’s Beard. The Oregon Grape and the Salal have berries that look good enough to eat!

The Banana Slug population grew too large and we treated some of them to a beer party…and the population, now diminished, is down to a hardy sober smaller number. Only abstainers survived I think.

In my orange vest I have to be a teacher and guide so I have learned about more of the backgrounds of the botanists, ecologists, preservationists, and artists that Mark listed in tiles on the walls. learning that stuff takes dedication

In general,I like being the interpreter of the work and like talking to people. I knew little about native plants when I started and know a lot now…and have planted a native garden at my own home.

Please do drop in on SUnday afternoons and visit!

]]> By: Wesley Miller http://blog.art21.org/2008/05/22/mark-dion-%e2%80%9cneukom-vivarium%e2%80%9d/#comment-5983 Wesley Miller Fri, 30 May 2008 00:47:46 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/05/22/mark-dion-%e2%80%9cneukom-vivarium%e2%80%9d/#comment-5983 Thanks Marge! It's been about a year since Art21 has been out to the Vivarium...would you be able to describe some of the changes you've seen over the past year? And as a dedicated guide, what do you make of being part of Dion's artwork in your orange vest? Thanks Marge! It’s been about a year since Art21 has been out to the Vivarium…would you be able to describe some of the changes you’ve seen over the past year?

And as a dedicated guide, what do you make of being part of Dion’s artwork in your orange vest?

]]> By: Marge Levy http://blog.art21.org/2008/05/22/mark-dion-%e2%80%9cneukom-vivarium%e2%80%9d/#comment-5596 Marge Levy Thu, 22 May 2008 17:56:16 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/05/22/mark-dion-%e2%80%9cneukom-vivarium%e2%80%9d/#comment-5596 <p>I LOVE the Mark Dion piece and spend 3 hours with it each and every Sunday. I volunteer at SAM Olympic Sculpture Park as an Ambassador. It changes all the time and I change as I learn more, see more, watch the changes, learn more about 19 and 20c. naturalists. It is a wonderful thing..a work of art and a place of thought and learning. I am proud of Mark and his vision and proud to present his work to the public every Sunday. And I wear the same orange vest he is wearing. Come by and say hello if your read this and i will give you a special treat.<br /> Marge</p> I LOVE the Mark Dion piece and spend 3 hours with it each and every Sunday. I volunteer at SAM Olympic Sculpture Park as an Ambassador. It changes all the time and I change as I learn more, see more, watch the changes, learn more about 19 and 20c. naturalists. It is a wonderful thing..a work of art and a place of thought and learning. I am proud of Mark and his vision and proud to present his work to the public every Sunday. And I wear the same orange vest he is wearing. Come by and say hello if your read this and i will give you a special treat.
Marge

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