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When it comes to plants, and really all living things that we’re made to take care of, we usually just focus on keeping the thing alive, rather than worrying about how it looks, or whether we can morph it into the shape of something it is not. That’s why we’re in admiration of the sculptural [...]

While we’re still vague on what President-elect Barack Obama’s WPA (Works Projects/Progress Administration) will end up doing, we sure like the images conjured by these evocations of FDR’s sweeping set of reforms to keep artists and construction workers busy during the Great Depression. In anticipation of great state-sponsored (and therefore more or less propagandist) visual [...]