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Plants and Architecture

Critical Comparisons of Xeric and Hydric Plant Systems

By: Lloyd Godman

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Plants and Architecture

Critical Comparisons of Xeric and Hydric Plant Systems

By: Lloyd Godman

Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ Greening the built environment by integrating plants into architecture has seen vertical and roof gardens flourish in recent decades, and they continue to capture the attention of architects, designers, city planners, and the general public as the threat of climate change and biodiversity loss looms ever larger. But one question remains: how sustainable are each of these various systems? And when all factors are considered, are these gardens really contributing to capturing CO2, and serving as a sustainable outcome for our urban environments, or are the installation of these gardens a subversive form of greenwashing? And ultimately, can plants ever be integrated into architecture in a fully sustainable manner? Plants and Architecture offers critical and insightful comparisons of hundreds of vertical and roof gardens around the world that use various Xeric or selective systems, as well as Hydric or adaptive systems. Plants and Architecture combines over a decade of experimental research and observations of (insert number of projects that are discussed in the eBook), each of which are illustrated with detailed photographs. This eBook utilises real world examples to discuss the potential issues that can arise from the integration of plants into architecture, including the uses of fertiliser, water usage and migration, plant failure, pathogens, metal corrosion, weight considerations, ongoing maintenance costs, fire risk, the use of plastics and the limitations of recycling. Plants and Architecture shows examples from Australia, France, Germany, Vietnam, Peru, Cambodia, Singapore, Philippines, and presents iconic projects like One Central Park Sydney, Bosco Verticale Milan, Musée du Quai Branly Paris, and CH2 Building Melbourne. With 789 photographs and 89 diagrams, 65 projects are presented. Plants and Architecture explores the history of plants and architecture and offers insights as to how plants find their own habitat within the built environment without human intervention, and how this existing method and other techniques can be utilised as a template for sustainable urban gardens.

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1923026097

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Rotax

photographic works by artist Lloyd Godman 1984 - 2023

By: Lloyd Godman

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photographic works by artist Lloyd Godman 1984 - 2023

By: Lloyd Godman

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di/VISION interiors

exploration of internal architectural space

By: Lloyd Godman

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di/VISION interiors

exploration of internal architectural space

By: Lloyd Godman

Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ From 1989, Lloyd Godman explored the visual strategy of what he termed di/VISION, where two camera frames are shot of a scene, one frame above the other, but with elements repeating in the resulting composite diptych. It is a binocular photographic perspective where strong geometric elements sometimes align in a persuasive gestalt, yet at other times fracture in a disjunctive visual. The images evolved from a previous series di/VISION architecture that centres on the exterior of buildings. Godman sees them as his holiday snaps. “Often the images are taken when we are on holiday and yet my creative mid wants to explore the built environment.” But the photographs are more than snaps and it is obvious there is a refined visual mind at work. He explored this over several decades in landscapes of both the natural world and the built environment. Godman uses the technique with stealth to exploit the human desire to make sense of what we see - so while the eye sees two images, the mind wants to read a single image, there is a visual fusion of the two. In this series he confronts architectural interiors and offers new visions of internal architectural space. There is a play with the simplicity or complexity of geometry and decoration within. As the frames are shot with a wide- angle lens, a strange perspective ensues that often suggests the dimensions and geometry of a new space, an unreal space, where an Escher-like quality emerges. The di/VISION series of works centered around constructed spaces and architecture sits as a marker to the living work he is experimenting with - the integration of plants and architecture. Photographing architecture with a binocular view offers not only new ways of seeing existing structures but potential for how plants can inhabit these spaces.

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Entropy

A visual exploration of fire in the Australian landscape

By: Lloyd Godman

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Entropy

A visual exploration of fire in the Australian landscape

By: Lloyd Godman

Please note: This EBook has been specifically designed as an EPublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux. https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ Entropy is Lloyd Godman’s photographic response to the devastating Victorian Black Saturday bushfire in Australia of February 2009, near where he lives at St Andrews. It does not deal with the impact on humanity with photographs of burnt cars and destroyed houses, but focuses entirely on plants and the regeneration of the bush. His ongoing intrigue with light and photosynthesis is fully engaged in this project photographing the revival of the bush from grey powder ash and black tree trunks to thick verdant green bush over a period of years. The EBook follows the evolution of the project from taking a few single photographs, through to the many thousands of triptychs, and beyond to the giant photographic intricate mosaics and the innovative and complex self-generating video projection work. It documents the creative process from taking a few photographs to the realization of a significant body of work and a major exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography. In the process it offers information on creating triptychs and panorama images, the power of wide angle photographic perspectives. For the botanist it offers a visual insight to how nature can respond after an extreme fire event, which species of plants recover and the rate of recovery, while for fire fighters it presents a visual clue to how the bush burns. The project is a metaphor for his concept of the planet as a gigantic abstract photosensitive emulsion. “the largest photosensitive emulsion we know of is the planet earth. As vegetation grows, dies back, changes colour with the seasons, the “photographic image” that is our planet alters. Increasingly human intervention plays a larger role in transforming the image of the globe we inhabit”. Lloyd Godman The work acts as witness to the green spirit within the earth that overcomes a grey ghost. The macro becomes micro and visa versa, forbidding monotones are replaced with subtlety of texture and colour, simplicity is replaced with complexity. Paradoxically, both order and chaos is found in ash and regenerated emerald bush.

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Summer Solstice Journeys

a series of photographic journeys

By: Lloyd Godman

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Summer Solstice Journeys

a series of photographic journeys

By: Lloyd Godman

Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ Summer Solstice Journeys chronicles photographer Lloyd Godman's eight photographic expeditions on the summer solstice, from 1988 to 2008. Six of these captivating journeys take place in Otago, New Zealand, while the remaining two unfold in Victoria, Australia. Each expedition traces the trajectory of the sun or a shadow, from the break of dawn to twilight. Captured through the lens of a square-format 120 film camera, the frame is deliberately tilted at a 45-degree angle, creating a distinctive diamond-shaped image that captivates the viewer. Just as the sun teeters on the precipice of the summer solstice, poised to transition into shorter daylight hours and the arrival of winter, the camera frame itself delicately balances on a visual fulcrum. The resulting photographs showcase a mesmerizing interplay of intense natural chiaroscuro lighting, presenting stunning black-and-white landscapes that transcend the ordinary clichés of sunrise and sunset photography. Instead, they evoke a sense of performance art with a camera, reminiscent of Richard Long's exploratory walks. Throughout these journeys, the artist immerses himself in silent meditation, forging a deep connection with the planet's natural rhythms and the profound influence of solar forces. The ebb and flow of the tide, the elongation and contraction of shadows in the early morning and at sunset, all unfold as part of this evocative visual odyssey. Initially, Godman invites the reader to delve into the project's conception through a series of enigmatic preliminary landscape photographs, capturing the beach near his residence at that time. The first expedition in 1988 unfolds at Ocean View Beach looking out to Green Island, near Dunedin, New Zealand. The triangular silhouette of the island occupies the upper section of the image, mirroring the corner of the camera frame. Waves gently caress the shore, leaving behind glistening patches of wet sand that reflect the sun. Journey Two, in 1990, centers around the rock formations of the Rock and Pillar range, where Godman tracks the sun's movement in relation to a striking rock formation, occasionally concealed by ethereal fog. Subsequent solstice journeys take us to Akatore Creek in 1996, Moturata in 1999, Bull Creek in 2002, Wilsons Promontory in 2005, and finally St Andrews in 2008.

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1923026100

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Drawing from Nature

Photo / Drawing works 1987 - 2001

By: Lloyd Godmaqn

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Drawing from Nature

Photo / Drawing works 1987 - 2001

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While art critics have often pitched drawing and photography as a dichotomy, Drawing from Nature fuses the two. The artist places photographs of city scenes on a sheet of black paper and then draws with pen and ink from the organic aspects of the photographs. Volcanic rock pitted with holes that form the corner of a gutter, water streaming down the gutter, plants, and limestone cliffs provide a starting point for the drawings which extend outwards and defy the rectangle of the photograph. The series points to the importance of nature in the concrete jungles that have become our cities. “This Lloyd Godman exhibition again shows that crisp, clear vision we have come to expect from his work, Auckland seen from the ground up as no Aucklander sees it. This is not so much a homage to the city as a delightful, quirky, outsider’s view. There is something at once amusing and provocative in this vision of our Queen city. This is not a glossy presentation of the “City of Sails” but rather a city in decay, or at least a place reminded of its eventual past. Detail and texture offer us visual questions which have become the trademark of Godman’s work. In this exhibition he complements the photographic/drawn questions with a catalogue that deepens and sustains this questioning. Catalogues can help or hinder the understanding of works. Some indeed render images the viewer judges clear, totally opaque! This catalogue reveals the artists intent, his philosophy and the links these have with the images presented. Here photographs no longer can be discussed as records of the past but, by combining the drawn image, they become prophecies received from the past. Godman presents to the spectator a vision of the moment and complements that instant of communication with deeper questions within the catalogue. Nature here is observed from an often-idiosyncratic angle, liberated from the confines of the rectangular format. Added to the photographic image is a drawn one, lovingly detailed and richly textured, emphasising Godman’s photographic trademark. What is clearly important are the questions we are confronted with”. Ken Laraman

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1923026143

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Tillandsimania Hybrids A to K

Spotlight on Tillandsias (air plants)

By: Lloyd Godman

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Spotlight on Tillandsias (air plants)

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Tillandsimania Species A - E

Spotlight on Tillandsias - air plants

By: Lloyd Godman

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Spotlight on Tillandsias - air plants

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Tillandsimania

Spotlight on Tillandsia species F -M

By: Lloyd Godman

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Spotlight on Tillandsia species F -M

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The Last Rivers Song

Photographs of the Clutha River and Kawarau Rivers before the filling of Lake Dunstan

By: Lloyd Godman

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The Last Rivers Song

Photographs of the Clutha River and Kawarau Rivers before the filling of Lake Dunstan

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In The Last Rivers Song, Lloyd Godman presents a stunning series of black and white photographs that show the raw, natural, beauty of Clutha River (which flows from Lake Wanka) and Kawarau River (which flows from Lake Wakatiku, Queenstown) before the water was stilled with the filling of Lake Dunstan at the completion of the hydro dam at Clyde in Central Otago, New Zealand. The hydro dam was planned to provide power to an aluminium smelter at Aromana which due to protests never eventuated. In an age where rivers are increasingly under threat from development, it offers an emblematic, evocative portrait of a wild, free-flowing river that has been lost to hydro development. The publication includes a detailed introduction to the conception of the project and the technical challenges of producing large mural photographs (which are gold toned from gold mined from the very river itself) and were first exhibited at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. From photographic stop motion to time exposure the aura of the river is captured beyond human vision. Exhibited at the Marshall Seifert Gallery, to compliment the murals at the DPAG, was a series of smaller photographs, the Clutha Panels, which show the expansive mood of the river. The full suite of photographs is included in the book. Hyperlinks within the publication link to animated video using sequences of the photographs and an original soundscape composed by Trevor Coleman and Paul Hutchins to accompany the DPAG exhibition. "Water surges, sprays, foams, whirls, ripples and rests, framed by very black rock which, when devoid of detail cameos the textures of its movements. In other instances a chiaroscuro lighting throws forward rock surface, its water-worn texture combining in rhythmic counterpoint with the current. The mural works are more expressively extreme, and have a greater over-all movement, each work capturing a different mood, from candy-floss fibres of foam in mural five, to the bone-crushing torrents". Alastair Galbraith

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Lake Fill I & II

an art performance to mark the filling of Lake Dunstan New Zealand

By: Lloyd Godman

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Lake Fill I & II

an art performance to mark the filling of Lake Dunstan New Zealand

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Tillandsimania Hybrids L to Z

Spotlight on Tillandsias

By: Lloyd Godman

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Spotlight on Tillandsias

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Tillandsimania

Spotlight on Tillandsia species F -M

By: Lloyd Godman

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Tillandsimania Hybrids L to Z

Spotlight on Tillandsias

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Tillandsimania Species N - Z

Spotlight on Tillandsias

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Carbon Obscura

By: Lloyd Godman

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Carbon Obscura

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Carbon Obscura is a wordplay on camera obscura, which was an early form of camera used to assist artists to draw a scene during the Renaissance. The work takes photography (drawing with light) to new dimensions, these are cameras like no other, and light becomes animated in waves of fog. The artist takes his intrigue with light and projections to new places and opens portals for the audience allowing them to enter the space of the camera. Initially conceived in 2007 for an installation in the greenhouse at Montsalvat as part of Structure Place and Space curated by Tony Tembath the work enchanted the audience and various versions followed. In this series of works, Godman created darkened spaces and materialized animated images of trees in the dark interior by piercing thousands of tiny pinholes into the opaque membrane that keeps the light out. But the pinholes allow light to leak in. Each pierced opening acted as a pinhole camera and not only allowed light to penetrate the space but also projections from the world outside. These were interactive installations where the audience triggered a fog generator as they entered a darkened space and fog filled the space with rays of light streaming through the waves of mist. The artist constructed various versions of the Carbon Obscuras in France, Morwell, Canberra, and Federation Square in Melbourne. Carbon Obscura was a key aspect to part of the Sustainability Festival at Kernot Hall, Morwell, Victoria in 2008, a major part of VIVID the National Photography Festival 2008 in Canberra, and a centrepiece of ReGenerating Community Arts, Community and Governance National Conference 2009 in Melbourne. The concept behind the work lies in the process of trees using light and photosynthesis to capture carbon. With the audience triggering the fog generator, it suggests we are responsible for our emissions.

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1923026127

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Evidence from the Religion of Technology

Large colour photograms

By: Lloyd Godman

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Evidence from the Religion of Technology

Large colour photograms

By: Lloyd Godman

Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ Evidence from the Religion of Technology is a stunning project that pushes the photograms to another level. The series benchmarks a significant shift in Godman's art practice. Here we see a schism from camera, film, and monochromatic photography into the exploration of the photogram (camera-less photography) which embraces the abstract use of vibrant colour. A wide range of objects are used to create the colours and tonal modulations in the images. The camera, too often seen as the essential component of photography, is discarded as irrelevant. Light, the essential activating force of photography is embraced. The multiple exposure colour photogram process reproduces mundane objects in an abstract colour that is further disguised by the resulting ghost-like negative representation typical of photograms. Godman uses the technique to explore issues of the consumer society and the eventual discarding of objects as detritus. In the images, visual reference to found objects lie visually entwined, obscured, and even fused as a new unidentified relic. He compares our obsession with technology to a religious fanaticism, that drives our desire for the new and yet also the disposal of the old. A form of visual form of archeology is required to decipher the content of the images, sifting over the remains of a catastrophic event, where remnants of objects are all that remain. Within the body of colour photogram works are several sub-series. Single prints, long strips, human figures, and the key work, Evidence from the Religion of Technology, which is a large and, ambitious. This piece includes three full figures, arms outstretched (a female figure, a male figure, and a human skeleton) with a series of associated prints arranged in a linear form, the work spreads for 22 meters across the gallery wall. The ebook offers an intriguing context, with an insight from the initial experiments with photograms of Fox Talbot in the late 1820s, through the simultaneous rediscovery and adaption by Man Ray and the surrealists in France, and Maholy Nagy and the Bauhaus in Germany a century later. It also includes contemporary works by Alex Syndikas and Harry Nankin and other photogram artists.

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1923026119

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Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels

By: Karl Bodmer Hannibal Lloyd,Maximilian Wied

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Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels

By: Karl Bodmer Hannibal Lloyd,Maximilian Wied

The four volumes of the Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of America during the years 1832-1834 follow the German explorer and naturalist's travels to the Great Plains region with Swiss painter Karl Bodmer, including his journey up the Missouri River and his encounters with the native tribes living in the region. vol. 1 of 4

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1429002425

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Imagine

where plants fly beyond the vertical garden

By: Lloyd Godman

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Imagine

where plants fly beyond the vertical garden

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Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ Artist Lloyd Godman is at the forefront of a modern trend to bring an appreciation of the natural world into our structural domains. Buildings do not rest ‘above’ or ‘outside’ a landscape, separated from the surrounding environment. On the contrary, structures interact with the natural world as objects that cast shadows, consume resources and provide rich habitats for life. Godman’s living, plant-based artworks reinforce the necessary connectedness of buildings and the wider environment. Not only do these artworks convey powerful messages and philosophies of sustainable and ethical physical interaction, but they also reach out beyond ideas to become part of the actual structure – as physical objects, Godman’s artworks are purifiers of the air as well as the soul, suppliers of colour as well as calmness, and filters of water as well as the human spirit. ...... it is highly unusual for an artist to forge new aesthetic, philosophical and architectural directions through his work; Godman, however, has managed to use his diminutive plants to convey global concepts, and in the process participate in a new wave of appreciation for plants in the built environment. John Power 2011 Here is an insight into the remarkable applications of Tillandsias (air plants) as a means of integrating plants into architecture in a fully sustainable manner. It brings new directions to living architecture. Green walls ( vertical gardens ) and adaptation of biophilia into the built environment offers many advantages, but there can also be issues, like maintenance, water/fertilizer migration, microorganisms, plastics which are conveniently ignored. The use of Tillandsias eliminates many of these issues and allows new ways to merge plants and architecture. Plant sculptures that suspend and rotate on the wind, screens covered with plants that move over skylights, robotic gardens, tidal gardens on the facades of buildings, horizontal screens that offer shade and privacy are among the many possibilities. Since 2010, the ideas have been realized in the work of Lloyd Godman. Experiments see plants placed on high rise buildings at level 92, plants are salt tested in the ocean during a surfing session, plant sunscreens are created that can replace plastic sun sails.

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di/VISION interiors

exploration of internal architectural space

By: Lloyd Godman

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exploration of internal architectural space

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Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ From 1989, Lloyd Godman explored the visual strategy of what he termed di/VISION, where two camera frames are shot of a scene, one frame above the other, but with elements repeating in the resulting composite diptych. It is a binocular photographic perspective where strong geometric elements sometimes align in a persuasive gestalt, yet at other times fracture in a disjunctive visual. The images evolved from a previous series di/VISION architecture that centres on the exterior of buildings. Godman sees them as his holiday snaps. “Often the images are taken when we are on holiday and yet my creative mid wants to explore the built environment.” But the photographs are more than snaps and it is obvious there is a refined visual mind at work. He explored this over several decades in landscapes of both the natural world and the built environment. Godman uses the technique with stealth to exploit the human desire to make sense of what we see - so while the eye sees two images, the mind wants to read a single image, there is a visual fusion of the two. In this series he confronts architectural interiors and offers new visions of internal architectural space. There is a play with the simplicity or complexity of geometry and decoration within. As the frames are shot with a wide- angle lens, a strange perspective ensues that often suggests the dimensions and geometry of a new space, an unreal space, where an Escher-like quality emerges. The di/VISION series of works centered around constructed spaces and architecture sits as a marker to the living work he is experimenting with - the integration of plants and architecture. Photographing architecture with a binocular view offers not only new ways of seeing existing structures but potential for how plants can inhabit these spaces.

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Heroes Villains

Candid Portraits 1979 – 1980

By: Lloyd Godman

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Candid Portraits 1979 – 1980

By: Lloyd Godman

Heroes Villains is an eclectic series of black and white photographs taken by Lloyd Godman from 1979 - 1980 that nudges the idea that there are elements of both actors within each of us. That there is a pendulum that can swing from one dichotomy to another pushed by circumstance. At the time when the photographs were taken, black-and-white documentary photography was coming of age in New Zealand. Cultural institutions in the country, like art galleries, museums were beginning to take the medium and particularly the documentary genre, seriously. Photographers were working on important issues, and photographs were being exhibited and collected. There was an enthusiasm among photographers that their creative endeavors were becoming valued. While the taking of photographs is now ubiquitous, the technology available to everyone, and the means to publish on social media ridiculous, the art and skill of photography in the 1970s was quite different and rooted in and understanding of physics and chemistry. Professional 35mm cameras were quite expensive, and skill was required to use them. As a new bird might leave the nest, Godman was a fledgling photographer, learning and refining his vision and darkroom skills. Although many of the photographs were enlarged at the time, Heroes Villains was a project that allowed him to develop, but he never exhibited the work. The digitization of the negatives has afforded him to present the work as a full suite for the first time. But with a film development problem he was also perceptive to abstraction and rather than excluding the image 15, he included it in the series. However, he did not focus on candid portraits for long and was moved to direct his creative energy in different a direction the series was a precursor to Landforms series and the iconic The Last Rivers Song series in 1983 - 4.

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Imagine

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By: Lloyd Godman

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where plants fly beyond the vertical garden

By: Lloyd Godman

Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ Artist Lloyd Godman is at the forefront of a modern trend to bring an appreciation of the natural world into our structural domains. Buildings do not rest ‘above’ or ‘outside’ a landscape, separated from the surrounding environment. On the contrary, structures interact with the natural world as objects that cast shadows, consume resources and provide rich habitats for life. Godman’s living, plant-based artworks reinforce the necessary connectedness of buildings and the wider environment. Not only do these artworks convey powerful messages and philosophies of sustainable and ethical physical interaction, but they also reach out beyond ideas to become part of the actual structure – as physical objects, Godman’s artworks are purifiers of the air as well as the soul, suppliers of colour as well as calmness, and filters of water as well as the human spirit. ...... it is highly unusual for an artist to forge new aesthetic, philosophical and architectural directions through his work; Godman, however, has managed to use his diminutive plants to convey global concepts, and in the process participate in a new wave of appreciation for plants in the built environment. John Power 2011 Here is an insight into the remarkable applications of Tillandsias (air plants) as a means of integrating plants into architecture in a fully sustainable manner. It brings new directions to living architecture. Green walls ( vertical gardens ) and adaptation of biophilia into the built environment offers many advantages, but there can also be issues, like maintenance, water/fertilizer migration, microorganisms, plastics which are conveniently ignored. The use of Tillandsias eliminates many of these issues and allows new ways to merge plants and architecture. Plant sculptures that suspend and rotate on the wind, screens covered with plants that move over skylights, robotic gardens, tidal gardens on the facades of buildings, horizontal screens that offer shade and privacy are among the many possibilities. Since 2010, the ideas have been realized in the work of Lloyd Godman. Experiments see plants placed on high rise buildings at level 92, plants are salt tested in the ocean during a surfing session, plant sunscreens are created that can replace plastic sun sails.

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Drawing from Nature

Photo / Drawing works 1987 - 2001

By: Lloyd Godmaqn

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Photo / Drawing works 1987 - 2001

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The Rapture of God

Balthasar's Theology, Exposition, and Interpretation

By: William Lloyd Newell

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Balthasar's Theology, Exposition, and Interpretation

By: William Lloyd Newell

This is a book offering Balthasar’s theological oeuvre as a kerygma of Christ’s love proclaimed theologically as Christ’s esthetics of glory in his mission to reinvent himself, the world and us as beauty and glory. Balthasar’s hypothesis is that there is true theology and there is false theology. For him, theology is the unique science across the methods of which the decision of faith cuts, and divides it into two halves that cannot be united to each other: a genuine theology, which presupposes faith and does its thinking within the nexus of Christ and the Church; and a false theology, which rejects faith as methodologically dubious and irresponsible, and subsumes the truth of the phenomenon which discloses itself, under an anthropological truth (however this may be understood). In William Newell’s book he deeply reflects on the radical thinking being done in Catholic theology since the 1940s in Europe and now in the United States. Each chapter, each excursus, each elision, ushers the reader towards consolations without previous causes, the essence of mysticism in its first stages. The book, as with true theology, is a ‘come and see’ beckoning the reader to an endless furtherance of the archetypal experience of Christ.

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Black Natural Law

By: Vincent W. Lloyd

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Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking left (including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Vincent William Lloyd charges that many Black leaders today embrace secular, white modes of political engagement, abandoning the deep connections between religious, philosophical, and political ideas that once animated Black politics. By telling the stories of Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lloyd shows how appeals to a higher law, or God's law, have long fueled Black political engagement. Such appeals do not seek to implement divine directives on earth; rather, they pose a challenge to the wisdom of the world, and they mobilize communities for collective action. Black natural law is deeply democratic: while charismatic leaders may provide the occasion for reflection and mobilization, all are capable of discerning the higher law using our human capacities for reason and emotion. At a time when continuing racial injustice poses a deep moral challenge, the most powerful intellectual resources in the struggle for justice have been abandoned. Black Natural Law recovers a rich tradition, and it examines just how this tradition was forgotten. A Black intellectual class emerged that was disconnected from social movement organizing and beholden to white interests. Appeals to higher law became politically impotent: overly rational or overly sentimental. Recovering the Black natural law tradition provides a powerful resource for confronting police violence, mass incarceration, and today's gross racial inequities. Black Natural Law will change the way we understand natural law, a topic central to the Western ethical and political tradition. While drawing particularly on African American resources, Black Natural Law speaks to all who seek politics animated by justice.

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