In the Garden

REgenerate 

solar wavelengths in the  t o u c h s c r e e n  garden ~

The prismatic future/present calls artists to fully embody this era of the Anthropocene. 

We are IN it.

The next phase pulses into a solar garden with a new wave of curation and collaboration.  

This extends where we left off with REgenerate, and art will continue unfolding in these landscapes across space. 

Artists, architects, designers, poets are invited to re-imagine an interactive groundwork for this urgent moment.

How will we embed in the hyperspace of earth and protect the biosphere? 

What ideas can we generate across digital and multimedia realities to activate a new future? 

What is our collective role?

Send Out Signal

in the garden 🔆

oil pastel, paper cutouts, elemental copper wire, 

remixed video layers, touchscreen 

Book Project

A current art book project in process with Timothy Morton and Treena Balds 

REgenerate

You are warmly invited into the virtual exhibition entitled REgenerate. This multidimensional space offers an immersive landscape to remix and reimagine. The purpose of the platform is to experiment, adapt, and regenerate ideas about who we are and where we are going from here. A grounding invitation to pause and look at art like we really mean it. Decelerations. Down to Earth.

REgenerate is an art salon for radical work that engages the urgent ecological moment. The climate/health emergency, equality, and environmental justice are a few of the intersectional issues. In this unprecedented time, the exhibition will translate through a virtual greenhouse space. Artists, designers, philosophers, poets, dreamers, have the opportunity to re-envision the world. What should it look like when we emerge? This momentum will be a bridge to 2020 exhibition possibilities utilizing the thriving New Orleans Greenway, and we will continue to merge in this direction.

The digital portal of REgenerate is physically connected by wires, energies, and codes through spaces in-between—nonhuman and human elements. These are very real and politically charged conduits. One intention of the project is to interrogate what these network spaces are, how to utilize them in a grounding way, and where the juncture of analog and digital transmissions exists. What occurs when virtual effects enmesh a physical ground? What perceptions shift, and what flickering occurs while we walk the wires? Where does the body inhabit this ecosystem? How does this intersect privacy, AI, surveillance, and flows of information? Can these collective #landscapes spark activism? What is the mode of ART here?

Curated artworks have been selected to launch REgenerate, and artists are now invited to submit work for consideration. The digital @REgenerate_space portion of this exhibit allows freedom to experiment! The work can be cross-disciplinary, and artists are encouraged to create responsive pieces to a rapidly shifting world. The hope is to generate ideas, and continue to expand these revivified ecosystems and landscapes across space. A collective visual poem.

Love, 

~ co-creator 

Lara Schaberg 

Greenway

watercolor + ink visualization 

Greenway REdesign  

A collaboration for the Greenway Arts Activation and as a 2020 Ambassador 〰️

〰️An abandoned parking lot became an innovative space for public art exhibitions, community events, and ecological regeneration. Our team of designers, artists, volunteers, and urban architects created the plaza space led by Urbanscapes Design + Build in New Orleans. The exhibition opened in December of 2020 after an intensive and resilient design process.  The new passage on the transportive 2.6 mile Greenway will bridge community together across space, and support <eco>systems. This vital portal for public art, bioswales, native plants, and a new Crescent city farmers market, will map futurescape groundwork.

REgenerate 

merges with the Greenway ⏫

Activated through modes of transformation and reconnection, artists created light-based pieces that traverse interfaces of technology, color, and multidimensionality in our shape-shifting world.

Aftermaths

Aftermaths 

ink, watercolor, tempera on cold press paper 

The Greenhouse

Undulations of a World

paint, seeds, electrical wire, elemental copper, found glass, paper cutouts 

Greenhouse interface of ideas 🌿

A current multimedia solarium series in process

Heartlines

 

Heartlines

hand-painted sculpture 

Into the Forest

into the forest on the edge of light 

12 x 12" on cold press paper

watercolor and ink

reverberation 

12 x 12" on cold press paper

watercolor and ink

walking further into the forest⏫

12 x 12" on cold press paper 

watercolor and ink

 flicker 

12 x 12" on cold press paper

watercolor and ink

pulse

12 x 12" on cold press paper

watercolor and ink 

A series of paintings with the forest as muse and studio. A piece was included in a 10th Anniversary Show and Live Auction at The Front. 

After the Edge

kozo paper

After the Edge /

images from the Electric Palm live scroll painting /// 

ink, oil stick, watercolor, and wire on paper // dimensions variable

an improvisational piece created live at Duncan Plaza for 

Arts New Orleans 

2018 art + culture pop-up event 

The community exhibition celebrated 300 years of the culture of New Orleans,

and sparked a transformation for the abandoned park

Orchard Search

A Google search image of my multimedia work

Orchard 

layers of digital photography and video

Walking through the Anthropocene

video still

Spark

Unfurl 

oil on 30 x 40" canvas

  I spent the year creating art on the edge of an abandoned cherry orchard. The landscape inspired paintings and mixed media work in a variety of sizes, including the series, Orchard. The painting above was chosen to be part of the exhibition Spark. The show was sponsored by the Northport Art Association and Nathan Scherrer (Freenjoy), the producer who received a 2017 Grammy award for Beyoncé's Formation video. 

Orchard

A series of paintings, drawings, videos, & digital photography, as well as one live paper and touchscreen handscroll; a multimedia exhibition. I translated this unfolding vision through the Orchard, a complex space that has a long tradition in artistic, political, agricultural, and mythological landscapes. 

The live digital handscroll, Orchard, was created in an abandoned industrial cherry orchard in 2016. I was able to create art in it for a year before it was unexpectedly cut down. This is an anthropocenic topography etched with the remains of industrial farming, climate change, and inequality from labor, as well as potential for new modes of ecological engagement. It is an intersectional site where issues of equality, environmental justice, women's rights, technology, nature, and culture converge. The piece was created during the time of political trauma in 2016, echoing a state of unrest in the cultural and digital landscape. A world where virtual effects enmesh and glitch within a physical ground, became the backdrop for the series. The handscroll materials include cherry juice and branch, copper electrical wire, grasses, carmine ink, oil paint, watercolor, block print ink, and graphite on 30" x 144” cold press paper. The touchscreen and paper version is 33 squares of digital photography, pieced together in time as it was created.