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fertile creatures (series) drawing composting diaper sapphire pacifier onesie armor infant vampire formula photos belly back boob shoulder crows c-section cut path preditorXtreme (series) sculpture fox gun baby quail grenades drawings coyote sight fox guns prairie dog revolver baby quail grenades the dead garden (series) Winter Shack, Brooklyn, NY High Desert Test Sites, CA the portable forest (series) Dumbo Arts Center & Festival, NYC The Armory Center for the Arts, CA The San Deigo Museum of Art Monte Vista Projects, LA Sunset Blvd. Art Concert, LA Human Resources, LA Washington Blvd. Art Concert, LA Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions Sea and Space Explorations, LA participatory you are the largest thing on Earth art of exchange primal scream painting booth we miss wish sculpture/installation data planter yard search loop blue kiss island of misfit toys concept paintings student waste painting portal paintings black holes LED Paintings videos Periphery Murder Mystery Paradigm Shifts Frighten Small... A Flat Ontology born free performative Digital Improvisational Ensemble public art places organizer, curator, director sea and space explorations, LA tree and space, LA sound in space Festival, LA 100 person solo show, LA	Human Pot Helmets as part of The Portable Forest with Human Pots at the San Diego Museum of Art succulents, bonsai trees, draught tolerant plants, motorcycle helmets, beer hats, cowboy hard hats, armband, velcro, elastic, pots, dirt, potting stands, casters, stain, landscaping fabric, mirror, metal plant tags with plant titles and descriptions. 2011 Human Pot Helmets were worn by participants as a part of a one night event featuring wearable foliage accessories tailored for distinct environments that Bank created for The San Diego Museum of Art for their Summer Salon Series. Assistants in ghillie suits helped participants dress in wearable foliage accessories. 4,000 participants came through the exhibition that evening. also see: the Portable Forest with human pots and human pots: armbands and earrings
	Wearable works produced by Lara Bank for the San Diego Museum of Art, CA, 2011.Modeled by Chris Colthart and Lara Bank. Clockwise: Crystal Gale, Cowboy Bananas, String of Bananas succulent; Beer Garden, Antlers, Blue Chalk Sticks; The Spider, Cowboy Succulent, Burn Jelly Plant; Desert, one of 15 wearable succulents designed to fit on the forearm, String of Pearls succulent shown.

	07/2011 The Portable Forest with Human Pots by Lara Bank for The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. Ghillie suit wearers: Amy Blount Lay and Marcos Siref. Photos by Chris Colthart.
	Participant posing and wearing Crystal Gayle, Cowboy Bananas (String of Bananas) and participant taking a photo on her phone. Photo by Chris Colthart.
	Participant drinking beer and wearing Beer Garden, the Mother-in-Law (Spiky Mother-in-Law's Tongue).	Participant wearing Beer Garden, Rasta (String of Bananas).
	Participants wearing Crystal Gayle Cowboy Bananas (String of Bananas), Beer Garden, the Mother-in-Law (Spiky Mother-in-Law's Tongue), and Cowboy Spider (Burn Jelly Plant).
	Participants wearing Beer Garden, Rasta (String of Bananas), Crystal Gayle Cowboy Bananas (String of Bananas), and Desert armband (Pachyveria Powder Puff Exotica).
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