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Two woven gardens with arbors, newly planted for Biennale opening day, April 2022

Detail, April 2022

Small garden with a child, newly planted April 2022

Large garden With arbor overlooking the Rive’, April 2022

Detail of the arbor, April 2022

Detail of edible plants-Parsley and Juncus planted under the arbor, April 2022

Detail of edible plants-wild Bietola, Parsley and Red Orache newly planted, April 2022

Edible plants - wild Samphire, Parsley, and Juncus in the foreground, Watermelon vines overflowing large garden in rearground, June 2022

Edible red Orache (going to seed) and Watermelon vines, June 2022

Edible plants - wild Samphire, Parsley, wild Bietola, and Juncus in the foreground, Faranele (wild spinach) and watermelon in rearground, August 2022

Edible plants - Faranele (wild spinach) and Orache in the foreground, Juncus and Parsley in rearground, August 2022

Detail of edible plants – wild Samphire, Parsley, and Juncus in the foreground, Farenele, and watermelon in rearground, August 2022

Detail edible plants - Watermelon vines, Farenale (Wild Spinach) and Orache, August 2022

Detail, Samphire, August 2022

Detail of melon supported by the arbor, August 2022

Watermelon vines, Samphire, and Juncus overflowing gardens, September 2022

Detail of a Praying Mantis on the arbor, October 2022

Detail, edible plants – Samphire and Juncus in the foreground and Farenale in rearground, October 2022

Detail, edible plants –Agretti in foreground and Farenale in rearground, October 2022

Detail of a ripe melon on the arbor, October 2022

Detail, Farenale (Wild Spinach), October 2022

Detail, Farenale (Wild Spinach), November 2022

Making Containers from Plant Materials Workshop held, by invitation, in the classroom space created by Subhankar Banerjee and Jennifer Garcia Peacock, Giardino Marinaressa Levante, 2022

Making Containers from Plant Materials Workshop, by invitation, in the classroom space created by Subhankar Banerjee and Jennifer Garcia Peacock, Giardino Marinaressa Levante, 2022

Giardino Galleggiante per Venezia: Ma I Vermi Vivranno? (Floating Garden for Venice: But Will the Worms Live?), V2, 2022

Hazelnut branches, Laurel posts, burlap, composted soil, salt-tolerant edible plants, large garden.

Sponsored by Carol Dene Boling McCoy (1923 - 2019), Torre Nocciole Romane, Kansas City Art Institute, and ETRA.

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Newly planted, April 2021
Photo: Karen McCoy

Newly planted, April 2021.
Photo: Karen McCoy

Detail of Watermelon, Fennel, and Orache plants, April 2021.
Photo: Karen McCoy

Watermelon vines overflow the front of the sculpture with green and red Orache, June 2021.
Photo: Margherita Bini

Detail of Watermelon vines overflow the front of the sculpture with green and red Orache, June 2021.
Photo: Margherita Bini

View of Orache, Parsley and Watermelon July 2021.
Photo: Jarrett Mellenbruch

Watermelon vines and Orache maturing to seed forming stage, August 2021.
Photo: Matteo Losurdo

Seedheads have formed, plants begin to dry, October 2021.
Photo: Matteo Losurdo

Detail of drying Orache.
Photo: Matteo Losurdo

Overhead view, October 2021.
Photo: Matteo Losurdo

Making Containers From Plant Materials Workshop.
Photo: Karen McCoy

Material examples, clockwise from the bottom: newspaper coiled with thread, pine needles, pine branches, leaves, grass & root basket, and grass and roots sample.
Photo: Bianca Bonaldi

Composting at Home Workshop: Composting at Home Workshop: Japanese Cardboard Container Method.
Photo: ECC Staff

Composting at Home Workshop: Vermiculture and Bokashi Methods.
Photo: ECC Staff Photo: ECC Staff

Gardening in Small Spaces Workshop: Reusing Water Bottles.
Photos: ECC Staff

Gardening in Small Spaces Workshop: Watring a hanging garden.
Photos: ECC Staff

Gardening in Small Spaces Workshop: Overalls Garden.
Photos: ECC Staff

Giardino Galleggiante per Venezia (Floating Garden for Venice), 2021

Hazelnut branches, composted soil, burlap, salt-tolerant edible plants.
+ Three Community Workshops.

Sponsored by Carol Dene Boling McCoy (1923 - 2019), Kansas City Art Institute, Torre Nocciole Romane, Scoiattolo Rosso, and ETRA.

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Listener at trumpet which enhances sound

Sand mound for muffling sound

Viewer/participant "putting her head in the sand"

Sound of the Sea, Silenced Sea

Karen McCoy in collaboration with composer Robert Carl
2010

Listening trumpet - fiber, wax, hide glue, palm frond legs, and steel. Sand mound – sand and Portland white cement, Trumpet dimensions – 43"L x 54" H x 21" largest diameter, Sand mound dimensions – 36"H x 36" diameter at base, hole in 12"deep x 14" diameter. Accompanying web-based sound piece, Sounding Sea, Silenced Sea (Robert Carl, see info)

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Shaped palm frond (with resins and oil) for listening to the sound various sounds of trickling water in the fountain, 20" x 4" largest diameter.

Shaped palm frond (with resins and oil) for listening to the inside of the tree, 48" x 5" largest diameter.

Shaped palm frond (with resins and oil) for listening to the inside of the tree, 48" x 5" largest diameter.

Detail of trumpet entering hole in tree.

Shaped palm frond (with resins and oil) for listening to the inside of the tree, 48" x 5" largest diameter.

4 natural sponges, clay from Anne's Beach, paper, glue, paint, resin and oils, size varies from 14" L to 9" L with diameters from 15" to 10".

Natural sponge, clay from Anne's Beach, paper, glue, paint, resin and oils, size varies from 14" L to 9" L with diameters from 15" to 10".

Shaped Royal Palm sheath with palm fiber, rattan interior armature, thread, resins, oils, 57" long x 15" largest diameter.

Shaped Royal Palm sheath with palm fiber, rattan interior armature, thread, resins, oils, 57" long x 15" largest diameter.

Detail of earpiece

Shaped Royal Palm sheath with palm fiber, rattan interior armature, thread, resins, oils, 57" long x 15" largest diameter.

Listener using trumpet.

Large palm leaf trumpet (reinforced version), double leaf construction with split rattan interior and exterior ribs and reinforcement with palm fiber and sponge, sealed with oils and resins, 67" L x 16" largest diameter.

Large palm Leaf trumpet (original version), double leaf construction with split rattan interior ribs and reinforcement with palm fiber and sponge, sealed with oils and resins, 67" L x 16" largest diameter.

Child listening, aided by friend.

Sound and Sight Walks

in collaboration with Robert Carl, Sculpture Key West, West Martello Garden, Key West, Florida, January — April 2009, trumpets formed from indigenous materials, listening sites recorded and mixed by Robert Carl into Martello Mix.

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View from boardwalk.

Detail of the tangle.

View from above.

View from pond.

Detail of the structure.

Visitors writing on reed leaves.

Visitor floating his leaf on the pond.

The Taiwan Tangle: Space for Contemplating Carrying Capacity

Guandu International Sculpture Festival, Guandu Nature Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2009

Bamboo, hemp rope, vine leaves, text, 24' L x 9' W x 11' H

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Man listening to birdsong.

Coronet Acoustique Pour Les Oiseaux De Cantagal (Ear Trumpet for the Birds of Cantagal)

Languedoc, France,
2002

Ear trumpet woven from native plants, installed on large boulder aimed at a grove of trees where Nightinggales were frequently heard singing. Genet (Common Broom-Cytisus scoparius or Genista scorpius), willow, earth, retted genet, 5'5" x 2' large end x 3.5" small end.

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