A Summer Journey           
Through September 22

Luftwerk—Chicago, IL—Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero

Location: Joutras Gallery, Regenstein Center    
Open during Garden hours, included with general admission    
Medium: Mixed media    
Inspiration: The prairie

Artist statement: A Summer Journey is an installation that captures fragments of the landscape we inhabit. The work is an attempt to imagine a time when prairie land occupied two-thirds of the midwestern landscape, when it was expansive and rich in biodiversity, a holistic interconnected ecosystem, with healthy soil, abundant flora, and myriads of bees and butterflies. We think of this as a practice of re-finding—reflecting on what was and can be again.