By Timothy A. Schuler
When the landscape designer and artist Falon Mihalic was addressed by Meow Wolf to create an environment for his location in Houston, Radio Tave, she knew that the work was “somehow around the landscape”. But it was the discovery that her piece would be connected to an anchorage known as “ruin” that started the creative process. “I thought there was a garden,” she says.
The resulting 700 square meter work of art mixed up consists of 80 hand-cut ceramic pieces, which are mounted and mixed with photographs and other “Planty things” to form an outdoor, semi-watery environment. Inspired by the natural disasters that Mihalic experienced in her thoughts in Florida Panhandle, the mysterious ways of life were created after the long -abandoned garden of an eccentric garden book was colonized by a new lichen species. “In this imaginary abandoned garden there was a kind of event that changed the landscape and was crazy to go crazy and become wild,” says Mihalic. “For me this is a hopeful idea – the landscape remains.”
Timothy A. Schuler is an editor of the magazine. His letter has appeared in Metropolis, Bloomberg Citylab, And Places journal, among other things.