As reported by Monika Mróz, ‘Terraforming’ refers to the deliberate manipulation of an environment to make it capable of sustaining life. Artist Jamie North turned this term into a noun and applied it to his series of sculptures exhibited in Sarah Cottier Gallery in Paddington, Australia.
A set of marble and concrete pillars poetically filled with plants, ‘Terraforms’ is supposed to act as a relic of the gallery’s imagined archeology. With an almost encyclopedic botanical knowledge and careful curation, North filled the pillars with native Australian plants, such as trailing vines, orchids and lithophytes. By choosing only materials coming from waste or industrial by-products such as coal-ash or white marble, the artist explored the theme of art’s possibilities for re-use.
Source – https://www.ignant.com/2016/06/27/jamie-north-fills-concrete-with-australian-plants
