#experiment 8

Kieran’s hanging out on Drew’s shoulder

(original designs)

I originally intended her to be Zodyl Typhon's little sister but I decided just to make a new whole work of her since it wouldn't make sense how she's his little sister.

Jargon City, a magnificently scientifically advanced utopia on Earth where humans have access to limitless engineering, biology and chemistry. Though it is a good thing to be well-off in technology, it sometimes leads to arising predicaments.

I started making a bigger studio space to possibly add others work or more different versions of my tent, I could also collaborate with other students/peers. That was until my cat Zeus decided to pee on it! This is what I tried to experiment in terms of changing the form around before it was destroyed by cat godzilla. The space was times four the space of what I created before and I’m running low on ink! What a disaster, a funny one though. 

I thought about instead of going for a traditional type of tent form, could I hang my modrock piece from the ceiling so it be the roof of a shelter? The sides would be blankets, or bits of material as in the refugee camp they always used whatever they could find, just taping bits together. I thought I could put together bits of materials, cardboard boxes? Newspapers taped together? I need to experiment on this further. I still have newspaper available so I could try taping this together. 

In this photo, I put a back piece that would be another modrock section, surrounding the inside with photos/memories of the camp. 

As suggested in my previous posts, Garden Science has been guarding a secret. I wish I could say I’ve been waiting patiently for exactly the right time for the big reveal, but the truth is I’ve just been really busy. In any event... the secret shall now be revealed!

Behold:  The return of the Instant Garden!! That’s right, my personal favorite Garden Science experiment is back and way, way bigger than ever. I’ll be sprinkling evolutionary photos of the garden throughout this post as I explain. The photos show my work on the garden over a few weeks’ time.

So, what’s up with the instant garden? Where did it come from?  What’s this big reveal all about?

Readers who have been with Garden Science for several years now may remember that the original instant garden was an experiment based on planting a vegetable garden entirely from found seeds and kitchen scraps. It was a tremendous success, but unfortunately I had not been able to repeat the experiment in any meaningful way since that first year because I moved into a tiny apartment with no yard.

My growing situation improved dramatically a few weeks ago, though, because my significant otter just bought a house! The house has a roof, doors, windows, and other house things. This is all fine and good, but my inner Garden Scientist™ was primarily interested in the yard... the enormous, glorious yard.

Much to my absolute delight, the previous owner of this greenery had tilled a spot for a decently-sized garden. They had apparently used it well in previous years, too, because I found it absolutely filled with a volunteer army of tomato plants and wild mystery plants that I have yet to identify. It was also full of weeds. I’m still working on that.

I moved a bunch of the starts from the grow kit experiment over to the house and spent the last few weeks weeding, planting, pruning, watering and handing out high fives to passers-by. HOORAY!