Tennis Rackets And Green Thumbs.

Looks like the grass is greener at Wimbeldon this year. Artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey created these pieces of art using, well, grass. They took photographs of, Tara Moore who competed in the tournament, Eddie Seaward, a 15 year veteran groundsman at Wimbledon, and Coach Lizzie May is part of the Wimbledon Junior Tennis Initiative and began their three week creation.

"Back in the studio the artists develop the photos in a very similar way to printing in a darkroom. Large panels are seeded with grass and the images are projected on to them as negatives. The areas that get more light allow the grass to produce more chlorophyll and darken. It took about a week for projecting the image for 12 hours a day to complete the Wimbledon work."

Pretty amazing, huh? I plan to do them same and have a potrait of myself on my apartment balcony. My only problem being that I kill any plant I touch. marktd