Tillandsimania Hybrids A to K: Spotlight on Tillandsias (air plants)
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The ebook offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in growing Tillandsias, air plants. It is part of a larger series of ebooks produced by the author on airplants that offers detailed information on these amazing airplants. It presents richly detailed photographs for each Tillandsia plant entry including close-up microscope images which offer detail of the trichome leaf cells, the inflorescence and the flowers. The more than 330 pages of the volume, contain 123 plant entries on specific hybrid plants and combined with the accompanying 959 photographs, each entry endeavors to offer information on the Tillandsia hybrid seed and pollen parents, the hybridizer, dates, plant form, leaves, flowers, and growing conditions.
The Tillandsia plants in the volume are all from the author’s collection and his experience propagating Tillandsias where he lives near Melbourne, Australia. The EBook gives an insight into a range of plants he is experimenting with for his installation within the built environment.
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About the author
Lloyd Godman established and was head of the photographic section of the Dunedin Art School, New Zealand, for 20 years and then taught at RMIT, Melbourne, for a further 9 years. From 1989, his work moved from camera-based images to camera-less photograms with projects like Codes of Survival, Adze to Coda. He began exploring light sensitivity and evolved to where he grew images into the leaves of Bromeliad plants. Then followed a series of interactive gallery installations with plants which evolved into his current work with Tillandsias and the built environment. He is now seen as a leading ecological artist integrating Tillandsias into the built environment in a fully sustainable manner, with The AGE newspaper referring to him as an extreme gardener. Lloyd has grown Tillandsias since the 1980s and now has an extensive collection where he lives in Melbourne. He has spoken at the International Bromeliad conference Chicago 2004, and been a presenter at the Tilladsia Day in Brisbane several times.
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
Lloyd has a Masters of Fine Art from RMIT and combines his extensive knowledge of air plants based, on his personal collection of airplants, and his photographic skills to the Tillandsimania series of EBooks.
