14 DAY TRIAL // Just recently, British artists Ackroyd and Harvey took to making portraits using grass as their choice material. Their models are members of the local government in Charmande, France.
Apparently, by controlling how much light the vegetation they use in their projects gets, they can make sure that they have various shades of green at their disposal.
Therefore, they can create complex works of art, which look nothing like your average front lawn.
Truth be told, the grass they use does eventually die out, but the artists claim that this is just one way of making a point of how fleeting life is.
As they explain, “We know that the image will fade, the grass will yellow and die. The gradual disappearance of the image from vision, memory, life, is implicit in what we are looking at.”
From where we stand, Akroyd's and Harvey's portraits can also be argued to hint towards humans beings' strong connection with nature.