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06-05-2017, 04:12 AM
This artist turned Trump's tweets into something beautiful
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Imagine if President Trump's tweets provoked calm and beauty rather than rage and fury.
Such a realm really exists, though you'll have to slink beneath New York City to find it.
A subterranean exhibition (http://www.acfny.org/martinroth/) in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood features hundreds of lavender plants and a lighting system powered by Twitter streams. When @realDonaldTrump or @POTUS fires off an early-morning musing, the small room's ceiling glows. As statements are retweeted, the fluorescent bulbs brighten to match the growing intensity.
SEE ALSO: Dramatic Venice sculpture comes with a big climate change warning (http://mashable.com/2017/05/15/venice-hands-sculpture-sea-level-rise/)
Martin Roth, an Austrian-born artist (http://martinroth.at/en/) based in New York, said he wanted to address the "heightened anxiety" that's pervaded ever since Trump was elected last **vember. **t only have Trump's policies and rhetoric put people on edge — the flurry of news alerts, constant scandals, and he-said-she-said debates are also compounding our collective stress. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/04/trump-tweets-lavender-art-exhibit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Imagine if President Trump's tweets provoked calm and beauty rather than rage and fury.
Such a realm really exists, though you'll have to slink beneath New York City to find it.
A subterranean exhibition (http://www.acfny.org/martinroth/) in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood features hundreds of lavender plants and a lighting system powered by Twitter streams. When @realDonaldTrump or @POTUS fires off an early-morning musing, the small room's ceiling glows. As statements are retweeted, the fluorescent bulbs brighten to match the growing intensity.
SEE ALSO: Dramatic Venice sculpture comes with a big climate change warning (http://mashable.com/2017/05/15/venice-hands-sculpture-sea-level-rise/)
Martin Roth, an Austrian-born artist (http://martinroth.at/en/) based in New York, said he wanted to address the "heightened anxiety" that's pervaded ever since Trump was elected last **vember. **t only have Trump's policies and rhetoric put people on edge — the flurry of news alerts, constant scandals, and he-said-she-said debates are also compounding our collective stress. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/04/trump-tweets-lavender-art-exhibit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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