"Presence," a special
exhibition by artists-in-residence Heather Ackroyd
and Daniel Harvey, inspired the students from the
Boston Arts Academy to create a grass installation.
Fascinated by the artists' techniques of transferring
an image onto grass by using the photosynthesis process,
the students quickly learned that grass reacts to
the amount of light it receives. Grass that grows
without light turns yellow, and grass that grows in
light turns green. To create their own grass images,
each student made a drawing inspired by an object
in the Museum's collection and then turned that drawing
into a stencil. The stencil was placed on top of a
mat of seedlings. In a week's time they literally
"grew" this unique installation.
