Green: What is it?
Green: What is it?
9.14 – 10.17.10 reception 9.22.10, W 5 – 8, Gallery Talk, 6:30
The School of Design Faculty of Mount Ida College define the meaning of green. What is the meaning of green? Green has many and contradictory meanings. Is it a color? Is it the natural world? Green means growth, a vital power of life, a person who is green with envy or sick, and slang for the dollar bill, a political movement and a clever catch all phrase for being sustainable. As a global culture we struggle to understand the green earth and how best we can live on it as part of nature not separate from it. We have acquired ownership of making the earth green by almost obliterating it first through our over use of resources, machinery and chemistry. Now, our new commodity is green, we romanticize the landscape, air, water, mountains, and animals. We sell it to amend our past actions. Luckily for us green is also a symbol of rebirth, rejuvenation and hope. See how artists and designers as educators interpret green.
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