Mobile Landscape
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- Mobile Landscape
- Mobile Landschaft
- 2004
- watercolor, color pencil, Indian ink on paper (page from a map)
- 29,5 × 42 cm
The work “Mobile Landscape” evolved out of the series “Transportable Garden,” in which Lois Weinberger placed colorful, checkerboard polyester bags of a type frequently used by Eastern Europe travelers in a garden. These bags were filled with medicinal, poisonous, agricultural, and ornamental plants popular in Medieval monastic gardens—plants that, from a human perspective, seem like refugees from culture that form a mobile and thus unstable landscape. This particular work features pages from an atlas index with the plants’ places of origin highlighted and a picture of one of those popular polyester bags drawn on top of it all. W.S.