PAPER BRIDGE / STEVE MESSAM

// PaperBridge is an outdoor art installation created by artist Steve Messam, open to the public until May 18. It comprises 22,000 sheets of paper, made at Cumbria's Burneside Mill and carefully packed together over a wooden frame which was subsequently removed. It will be sent back to the mill for recycling once the installation is complete. The bridge was inspired by other temporary constructions, including Tokyo architect Siguru Ban's cardboard bridge in France. However, Messam's structure doesn't rely on fixings and instead rests on "vernacular architectural principles as used in drystone walls and the original pack-horse bridges that dot the Lake District," he says. // 

[ Steve Messam, Mashable, Dezeen ]

GROVFÔR / BETSY HINZE

//What is it about mushrooms that is so entrancing? They are hunted rather than harvested and fit the archetype of the trickster. They are elusive and unpredictable. They often pop up in unexpected places like the dark and cold. They can be mind-altering, nourishing or poisonous. Some species can be all three, depending on their preparation or life cycle. There is a certain degree of danger n mushroom hunting... one falsely identified mushroom can be the end of you.//

An interactive installation based on sensory experiences and inspired by the Bûche de Noël Solstice tradition that invites you on a hunt for mushrooms made out of wild-foraged ingredients, and allows you to eat what you have hunted.

[ Betsy Hinze ]

TOFER CHIN'S STALAGMITE INSTALLATIONS

// The results are these unique geometric forms, which open the dialog to a coexistence between man and nature. While the structures juxtapose the natural and the permanent, it also creates space for the evolution and adaptation of long-lasting art in nature. “I’ve always wanted to work with concrete and this is a resource that is so abundant there. I’m also really drawn to the drastic change in climate and seasons there. I wanted to leave behind works that would live and breath in this dramatic environment.” //

[ Source: TRENDLAND ]