A Grower Perspective

An action taken due to extreme cold weather was to cover all the blueberry plants with white plastic, rolls and rolls of billowing whiteness covering the ground. This is necessary to keep our plants cozy enough to survive this winter chilliness. Yet when I saw it all transpiring all I could think of and see and feel was the temporary art of Jeanne-Claude and Christo the couple who draped islands, set up umbrellas, covered rivers...art that I did not begin to understand until fairly recently. All of a sudden it made sense to me, an idea or concept worked into a magnificent reality. This covering of plants to allow them to survive turned into an art installation in front of my eyes.

Does it make a difference if it was not thought out and planned for years and done intentionally for art as opposed to a creation for one practical reason being perceived as a work of beauty at the same time? What I'm looking at is plastic as snow drifts undulating as the wind blows through it, I'm looking at a fluffy down comforter being tucked in by men with shovels and holding it all down with cool gray gravel, I'm looking at bright whiteness set off by blue, blue sky and the browns and greens of the winter landscape. I feel that it is art, I like it, and there is emotion involved. And soon enough, as it warms up, it will all go away just like the snow or the art done by the magic of Christo and Jean-Claude. We are all here to make this earth a special place and so often things aren't only what they seem to be. Look around.