Thank you for participating in Ephemeral month. I love this recycled paper flower by Patricia Zapata of Little Hut.

check out the paper lamp at ihanna thanks mereteveian for the link. send in your links for ephemeral crafts via this forum thread.

Guerrilla gardening is a form of nonviolent direct action. The gardens are planted on an abandoned piece of land which they do not own to grow crops or plants. Guerrilla gardeners wish to reclaim land from neglect or misuse and assign a new purpose to it.

important: Always try to use native seeds! Not native species can be invasive and harmful to the surrounding eco-system. (from the Toronto guerrilla gardening group)

more: inhabitat article on guerrilla gardening : join the guerrilla gardening pool : check out guerillagardening.org for events and tips : read primal seeds :: and you grow girls adventures in street gardening : Brussels farmer : green guerrillas educate – advocate and organise for community gardens :

email whipup(at)gmail.com for ideas, articles and links in ephemeral creativity

The wooster collective – one of my fave sites is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.

Zonenkinder’s art in a run down building. || candle street art from know hope – KNOW HOPE is an artists from Tel-Aviv who creates handmade drawings out of paper and then lites them up with candles. || cardboard art in Melbourne || on the streets in Chile || on the streets of San Francisco || Moss graffiti by Edina Tokodi

send in your ephemeral creativity ideas, links or stories to whipup(at)gmail.com

Lenny’s nature boats are so gorgeous … He calls them pooh sticks – he beach combs for bits of wood, feather or anything else that appeals and has a loose set of rules for each construction eg. he might only build the boat out of stuff that is within reach when sitting down, or he might restrict the use of tools (usually a penknife).

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor who makes site-specific installations using natural and found objects to create temporary (and sometimes permanent) sculptures.

Through the careful selection and arrangement of items readily found in nature, Goldsworthy creates installations in the natural environment that last from only a few moments to several years. The tools of his trade are his own two hands; his media are stones, sticks, leaves, sand, feathers, snow, ice, or whatever the natural environment offers him. Fixing his fragile compositions in place are thorns, water, ice, and gravity itself. His results are amazing. from University of Michegan Museum of Art

There is a flickr group dedicated to his work and to others work who have been inspired by him.

Andy Goldsworthy, Woven bamboo, windy…, Before the Mirror 1987

Andy Goldsworthy, Sheepfold MI87, Tilberthwaite Glen, Cumbria, Photographer: Dave Mulligan Picture by nvmdigital.com

was at Yorkshire Sculpture park 31 March 2007 – 6 January 2008 – Cow dung on window

The natural art and environmental art pools on flickr are a treasure trove of inspiration.

flower squiggle from piperkinsvater flickr user

leaf circle from JRT Pickle flickr user

grass skirt from crows_in_trees flickr user.

to contribute an article, link or story on ephemeral art email whipup (at) gmail.com

The organised collection pool at flickr is an incredibly gorgeous collection of images with all sorts of interesting objects. The nature of a collection is intrinsically ephemeral, it is changed, added to, pieces discarded or swapped, put away or put on display.

from elsa mora

from knitalette

from sandra

from bricolage life

from Camilla E