Plants create music and light in a new art installation
and last updated 2021-02-08 13:09:44-05
FAIRFAX, Va. â Itâs a performance of light and sound, blending together to create harmony in an art installation called âArcadia.â
The performers creating this spectacle, though, arenât your normal musicians. Theyâre not even human.
Theyâre plants.
âOne of our faculty referred to it as, âletting us hear the songs of the plants,ââ said Don Russell, university curator for the School of Art at George Mason University. âSo, in a sense, weâre looking at the plants as artists.â
Itâs all happening inside the greenhouse on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Arcadia is the brainchild of musician and artist Sam Nester.