One gallery inside Bread and Salt in Logan Heights now contains an art installation titled Lying Fallow. Dried tall grasses rise from soil underfoot in an artificial indoor meadow. One can walk through the small “meadow” and rest on one of the seats, regathering strength.
I love the outdoors and being in nature. That’s where I feel the most healthy, alive. I know many other people feel the same way.
This installation, when I visited it, did remind me that a real meadow, outdoors, with its earthy smell and gentle movement in the wind, calms, restores, inspires, reconnects the mind, body and soul with something larger than ourselves.
But where in the gallery is the sky?
Everything about Lying Fallow is sincere. The artist Helena Westra has assembled something that is an important reminder: Quiet renewal helps us on life’s journey. It helps us to be newly creative.
But what sort of world have we created where we feel compelled to build a realistic natural landscape inside walls?
Are we so hurried and so trapped in artificial environments that “being in nature” is merely an exhibit that we experience for a moment or two?
Real meadows are still out there.
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