Overview

Aviva Rahmani’s ecoart projects have taken on endangered species, climate change and ecosystems. You can find specific works under the headings of her 3 major works: Ghost Nets, Cities & Oceans of If, Blued Trees.

  • A split view of a forested landscape. The top shows fallen tree branches and a cut tree trunk with blue markings, indicating logging activity. The bottom shows a view through a leafless forest with distant hills and a partly cloudy sky.

    Blued Trees

    Blued Trees, was originally inspired by environmental activists, who asked Rahmani to create art to stop pipelines. She created a series of art installations in the proposed forest corridors where natural gas pipelines were proposed. The Blued Trees, An Opera emerged as a continuation of Aviva Rahmani’s copyrighted continental scale forest symphonic composition which she initiated in 2015.

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  • A cozy wooden attic with a vintage white metal bed frame covered in tangled bundles of green and blue Spanish moss.

    Ghost Nets

    Ghost Nets (1990-1991) was a multipart habitat restoration project where Trigger Point Theory was developed. Situated on the former coastal town dump of Vinalhaven island in the Gulf of Maine, the project restored 2.5 acres of habitat through conceptual and practical actions that explored soil, land, animal and water relationships: Trigger Point Garden, KindWind, and Traffic Dance.

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  • Abstract art installation with layered maps and bold red letters, set against a blue and white wall.

    Cities and Oceans of If

    Cities and Oceans If (2000-2010) imagines a world of “if,” where natural resources were valued and protected. The public art interventions were studies of ecological acupressure “trigger” points across various sites internationally, reinforcing habitat restoration, biodiversity, and interdependence. Experimenting with the virtual and physical and combining artistic inquiry, data collection, and mapping...

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