Survivor
The LA Times discusses artist and physicist Lothar Schmitz's installation "Survival Strategies" at the Cal State Long Beach University Art Museum. The Times poses a few questions particularly relevant to designed landscapes:
The notion of nature as something to be haphazardly assembled and cut into convenient pieces raises questions applicable to all eco-utopian projects. What is it we are looking to nature for? How well do we actually know what we're dealing with? And whose aesthetics determine what we create?
See also a review in the Long Beach District Weekly, which includes a photo.