I really thought that with this covid thing going around it would give me more time to concentrate on my posting on Hive but unfortunately between family life and trying to survive financially it has meant that I have very limited time to pursue my own interests or post as often as I would like. I envy those that are able to post each day and sometimes even several times a day. Where the hell do these guys find the time? Has Hive become their full-time job? The evening is my hour or so of me time but even then I am knackered and so I don't have the mojo to write a coherent post about my normal work. But, tonight, come hell or high water I want to post something. So let me let you into a bit of what has been keeping me busy. This is an unrelated subject from my usual sculpture posts but I hope someone may find this interesting.
I just finished this pretty big project of living walls for several offices in the one industrial estate in Dublin. I figured I would put together a little post to show the process as it may be good information for the plant lovers of Hive. And since I am waiting for @d-lux.io to come back online to post another sculpture project I thought this would be a good filler.
As the title says, this is a loving wall, a process of growing plants vertically. The system used is the NextGen living wall which I Built into a frame and then hung on the wall. It was a simple enough job but took ages. Each one had it's own set of challenges. Every wall was different and trying to secure these heavy structures took brawn as well as brains.
How the system works is quite simple. There is a back panel which you attach to the wall and then from this, you hang a collection of trays where the plants sit. The trays also allow for easy watering. They are like champagne glasses stacked on top of each other, you water from the top and once the bottom tray is filled you stop watering.
Hopefully, you can make out how the potted plants sit and you can also make out the interconnecting tubes and overflow drains, When adding the plants you are free to compose whatever pattern you want like it is some sort of matrix display and that part exercised some of my artistic side.
We had fun with this with all the different plants in our arsenal. We had to hang eight of these and make eight different displays I also made 12 moss painting which I posted about last week.
In each pot, we put a little wick like a drinking straw. This makes sure the water all goes where it is needed.
I must say it was fun although the job dragged on longer than I would have liked now I am already on my next mission which needs to be installed by the end of the week.
I like how they worked out and that now it is nature's time to take over and improve on the compositions. It is a nice way to bring life to a cold, flat wall.