Of the Earth is the most recent large-scale art installation at the Morton Arboretum near Chicago. The five sculptures by the Polish-American artist Olga Ziemska are constructed from materials gathered at the Arb along with steel and glass-fiber reinforced concrete (and in one piece, astroturf for a year-round maintenance-free carpet of grass).
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| Hear: With an ear to the ground |
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| Stillness in Motion |
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| Strata |
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| The steel frame is filled with river rock. |
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| Ona The mirror eyes seemed out of place to me. Too zombie-like. |
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| Oculus This was our favorite piece. |
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| I preferred the more delicate rays of the other side of the piece. |
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| Here we thought the mirrored eye worked well. |
