home grown carrots exchanged for art

Tonight I attended the opening of a unique exhibition.
Plant Matter Neo-Eden Melbourne, by the Taiwanese artist Hsu Su-chen
Here she is, getting 'paid' for her work, in carrots.
Tomorrow (saturday) will be even better, as community growing groups get a trading day with her, and her collaborator, eco-architecht lu Chien-ming. You grow food, swap, she draws, swaps.
Now you are intimately connected.
I'm really crazy about the Taiwanese, and love being around them, living with them. They have all the politeness and powers of observation of the Japanese, are intensely educated and creative, but also an innocent, childlike fearlessness, and graceful way of saying what they really think, which makes life unpredictable and good. I haven't met an exception yet.(but maybe the reason I find out they are Taiwanese in the first place is because I'm so taken with them, and ask).

Its a lovely project, having us re-view the scraps of plants that decide to co-exist with us in our city lives.

The exhibition is on until the 13th December, 11-5pm Wednesday to Saturday.
Its at Domain House, just opposite the National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.