{"id":399,"date":"2008-06-09T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T01:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=399"},"modified":"2008-06-09T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T01:29:32","slug":"cals-turf-sculpture-morphs-into-cow-kind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"CALS turf sculpture morphs into cow (kind of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"images\/1sodcowx300.jpg\" ALT=\"sod cow\" ALIGN=\"right\" \/>Back in 2006, Cornell undergrad Danielle Hodgins created quite a stir at graduation by creating a larger-than-life cow sod sculpture outside of the animal science building.  [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hort.cornell.edu\/department\/faculty\/eames\/artofhort\/gallery\/2006springprojects.html\">Images<\/a> | <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/May06\/turfcow.html\">Cornell Chronicle article<\/a> | <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/May06\/turfcow.mov\">.mov<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>This year, Danielle graduated.  But she had one more sod sculpture project in her before matriculation:  She spelled out CALS (<strong>C<\/strong>ollege of <strong>A<\/strong>griculture and <strong>L<\/strong>ife <strong>S<\/strong>ciences) on the ag quad, the center of many graduation-related events.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/cals_turf_beforex500.jpg\"><img ALT=\"cals sod sculpture\" SRC=\"images\/cals_turf_beforex500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy keeping sod green when it&#8217;s installed on a wooden skeleton.  As alumni weekend approached &#8212; two weeks after graduation &#8212; the call was made.  It was time to pull the sculpture down before the alumni arrived on campus.  It was just a little too brown.<\/p>\n<p>But Danielle had another idea, probably inspired by her formative years growing up on a dairy farm.  A little sports turf paint and she transformed the sculpture into a surreal Holstein theme.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"images\/cals_turf_afterx500.jpg\"><img ALT=\"cals sod sculpture\" SRC=\"images\/cals_turf_afterx500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll blog about the mural she painted in our hall someday soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2006, Cornell undergrad Danielle Hodgins created quite a stir at graduation by creating a larger-than-life cow sod sculpture outside of the animal science building. [Images | Cornell Chronicle article | .mov] This year, Danielle graduated. But she had one more sod sculpture project in her before matriculation: She spelled out CALS (College of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CALS turf sculpture morphs into cow (kind of)&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}