Aimee Good

The making of the site specific installation "Lawn Mandala: sod circles and clusters" for Art in the Garden involves my continual interest in the resonant and meditative force of the circle. Patterns of wholeness have been created throughout the ages in all parts of the world in arts, crafts and religions. Many patterns of wholeness utilize circles in myriad form - to name a few of my favorites- concentric circles, bindus found upon the foreheads of East Indian women, mandalas, cell clusters, the sun, pond ripples, matter vibrating, energy eddying, the shape of a mouth, and the continuous looping flow of our breath, moment to moment, day after day.

Sod rings will mark the terrain of the lawn, gathering in clustered patterns, like a mandala, small and large, random rings breaking from pattern to float solo or in pairs upon the grass surface. Mirror shards placed in the center of sod rings will pull the sky down to the ground. A gesture, an action toward wholeness, energy, a discovery of place.

Currently, Aimee teaches in School Programs for the education departments of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. She resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Josh, and her daughter, Matilda.

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