Kokedama in Your Landscape (Interactive Plant & Papermaking Installation by Artist Megan Singleton)

Hand Papermaking Art Installation - Megan Singleton

Kokedama in Your Landscape - Plant & Papermaking Art Installation by Megan Singleton

Kokedama in Your Landscape - Installation Art by Megan Singleton

Hand Papermaking Installation Art

So you can make handmade paper from plants, but what about shining the spotlight on the plants themselves?Kokedama in Your Landscape is an interactive art installation by artist Megan Singleton. It has been in New Orleans, Eastport Maine, St. Louis, and who knows where else it might travel!Kokedama is a Japanese Bonsai method of containing plants in small moss balls -- in the New Orleans version of the installation, modified by wrapped the root & dirt ball in wet handmade paper sheets.The idea is to introduce folks to their local, native plants. So -- in Louisiana you'll see Gulf Cordgrass, Sand Live Oak, and in Maine you'll have Pineapple Weed, Yarrow, and Wild Rose.Participants take home a plant from the installation to their backyard, porch, or landscape, and email a photo back to Megan. The photos and each project is documented on the Kokedama in Your Landscape website -- check it out!Check out other cool things that Megan's been up to:

• Making seaweed paper from the invasive Codium Fragile.

• Visit www.megansingleton.com for more of Megan's artwork.

• The latest iteration of Kokedama in Your Landscape in St. Louis at the Pulizter Art Museum Lot: PXSTL Event Transformation: Paper from Plants, Art through Interaction.