Overview
Aviva Rahmani’s ecoart projects have taken on endangered species, climate change and ecosystems. You can find specific works under the headings of her 3 major works: Ghost Nets, Cities & Oceans of If, Blued Trees.
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Blued Trees
Blued Trees, was originally inspired by environmental activists, who asked Rahmani to create art to stop pipelines. She created a series of art installations in the proposed forest corridors where natural gas pipelines were proposed. The Blued Trees, An Opera emerged as a continuation of Aviva Rahmani’s copyrighted continental scale forest symphonic composition which she initiated in 2015.
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Ghost Nets
Ghost Nets (1990-1991) was a multipart habitat restoration project where Trigger Point Theory was developed. Situated on the former coastal town dump of Vinalhaven island in the Gulf of Maine, the project restored 2.5 acres of habitat through conceptual and practical actions that explored soil, land, animal and water relationships: Trigger Point Garden, KindWind, and Traffic Dance.
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Cities and Oceans of If
Cities and Oceans If (2000-2010) imagines a world of “if,” where natural resources were valued and protected. The public art interventions were studies of ecological acupressure “trigger” points across various sites internationally, reinforcing habitat restoration, biodiversity, and interdependence. Experimenting with the virtual and physical and combining artistic inquiry, data collection, and mapping...