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Braiding Grass in Windsor

By Justin Langlois on June 1st, 2009, 3:51 am 2 Comments

Leesa Bringas (along with some fellow Windsor artists) spent the weekend braiding the long grass at Great Western Park. The process leaves spirals of braided grass around shoots of flowers. It’s quite beautiful and seems meditative (though admittedly, I didn’t venture out to try myself).

Political issues of the strike aside, I quite like seeing the riverfront in a naturalized state, and it’s great that Leesa found such a quiet way to work with the space. Given the other activity in city parks over the weekend, this project is a welcomed intervention to the strike now going into its seventh week.

You can see more photos on Steven’s site, or more video on Darren’s site, or read more about the project on the Windsor Star.

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Tagged: art braid grass interventions river Windsor

Related Posts: SRSI, Day 3: Quiet Sunday, but things were still happening Spencer Finch: The River That Flows Both Ways The Leona Drive Project

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2 Responses to “Braiding Grass in Windsor”

1. Nicole Markham says:

   June 1, 2009 at 11:37 am

   amazing! i did a short post about this and stole this video lol who knew braiding grass could be so exiting!

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2. A Sign Can Make It Official: Demarcating Windsor’s New Meadows | Broken City Lab says:

   July 8, 2009 at 11:15 pm

   [...] Or if signs aren’t your thing, but you still want to work with these amazingly wondrous meadows, head out with Leesa Bringas at 8am every morning for some grass braiding. [...]

   Reply