Week 4: ‘Shaded Stardust’- Anli road’, sucrose series, 30cm diam, Niamh Cunningham倪芙瑞莲2019
Why do traffic police like trees?
Urban Planners choose to plant trees on city streets for many reasons , it may be for the shade they provide in Summer or those mysterious positive vibes that accompany natural living things (I will explore more on that in future blogs) when plant and natural life is brought to the streets. A more pragmatic reason might be when trees planted along both sides of the road, the road feel narrower and therefore drivers are less likely to speed and more likely to drive slower.
Trees slow down traffic!
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Memory Palace of Tree Stories is a socio- ecological art practice which invites you to tell a story or share information about trees. It is a creative- led social enquiry of how we can live well for both personal and collective wellbeing. Your story can be any kind of tree story, a personal tree story , historical tree story or a botanical tree story . I do hope you can contribute a comment on how we can live better with the greater community of life.
(email : [email protected]) I would love to hear from you. Each week throughout 2020 a story will be posted with either an artwork already made or perhaps your story will inspire me to make a new work!