This is a cylindrical trellis made of bamboo, embroidery hoops, steel; then wrapped in clear plastic shrink wrap. I inserted plastic pots at the end of the plastic to hold in a compost and peat moss mixture. Then I planted four heirloom tomato plants that will grow from the top of it as hanging vines. German Queen, yellow pear, brandywine and beefsteak. At the bottom are cucumbers and cantaloupes that I hope will grow up the trellis. I have no idea if this is going to work at all. My biggest fear is that a heavy wind will blow the whole thing over, since now it is very top heavy. We'll see how it does in the next few days and then I may put in some more supports.
Th next really wacky project is a wearable sculpture that I woke up early on Sunday morning with an intense desire to build. Once upon a time I did a performance art piece in which I covered myself in lightbulbs and did this crazy electrified dance. It was cool. Another time I made some armatures for a sculptural performance piece about breast cancer which never came to fruition but I still had the parts lying around. So one thing led to another, and I used the steel harness from the lightbulb thing and attached the "boobs" from the other thing and then I covered the new amalgamation in green shrink wrap plastic and decided it would be great if I planted tomatoes in it.
My hopes are that the tomato vines will grow all over it. Oh- the tomatoes are several varieties of heirloom cherry tomatoes.
I know it is very wierd. But really, I had the flu and a high fever.
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