Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination

Author Ginny Ruffner with Grant Kirkpatrick Description Reforestation of the Imagination invites us into a futuristic landscape of peril and promise. Combining handblown glass sculptures with augmented reality (AR), artist Ginny Ruffner blends art and technology, curiosity and wonder, and takes us on a journey of “what ifs”: What if the landscape is devastated? What can nature do to heal itself? What roles do creativity and science play in our ability to confront an altered landscape? Illustrated and written by Ginny Ruffner, in collaboration with new media artist Grant Kirkpatrick, Reforestation of the Imagination is an interactive “field guide” to the wildflowers of the mind. Ruffner offers tongue-in-cheek descriptions of her fanciful flowers and their remarkable, sometimes humorous adaptations; her clever titles imitate the scientific names of traditional botany while playfully connecting them to the art world: tulips develop stem flexibility, and in a Noah’s ark moment, a plant ev