{"id":374,"date":"2008-04-30T17:08:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=374"},"modified":"2008-04-30T17:08:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:08:34","slug":"turfwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Turfwork!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"images\/turfwork_constructionx500.jpg\" ALT=\"students working on the ground\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"images\/design_from_airx250.jpg\" ALT=\"simulation from the air\" ALIGN=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My friend Marcia Eames-Sheavly has been working with a local artist and a group of students this semester (with the students taking the lead) to create a piece of ephemeral art &#8212; titled Turfwork! &#8212; designed to be viewed from the air.  The canvas is a one-acre field at our turf and landscape research facility and for &#8216;paint&#8217; the students are using mulch, straw and black plastic to temporarily turn the grass yellow in places.<\/p>\n<p>At right is a simulation one of the students created of what the work will look like to folks flying in and out of the nearby Ithaca airport.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the area and want a ground-level view, the students will be around on Mothers Day from noon to 2 p.m. to answer questions.  For more information, find details on <a HREF=\"http:\/\/hort.cals.cornell.edu\/cals\/hort\/news-events\/turfwork.cfm\">Department of Horticulture website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Marcia Eames-Sheavly has been working with a local artist and a group of students this semester (with the students taking the lead) to create a piece of ephemeral art &#8212; titled Turfwork! &#8212; designed to be viewed from the air. The canvas is a one-acre field at our turf and landscape research facility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turfwork!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-lawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}