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☆ London chewing gum artist paints 'hidden world' beneath people's feet
  + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Lucy Marks | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/5] Ben Wilson, artist, shows Naiara, 4, how to hold a paintbrush, while he paints on the Millennium Bridge, London, Britain, August 21, 2023. REUTERS/Anna Gordon Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Lying on his side on the surface of London's iconic Millennium Bridge, artist Ben Wilson paints a piece of dried chewing gum trodden into the ground. "The important thing is the gum is below the metal tread," said 60-year-old Wilson, dressed in a paint-daubed orange jumpsuit. "By painting a picture which is so small, those that see it then discover a hidden world beneath their feet," Wilson said. The images are more personal than the chewing gum works, Wilson says, and represent an "intuitive visual diary".
Persons: Ben Wilson, Anna Gordon, Wilson, It's, he's, it's, Lucy Marks, Kirsten Donovan Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: London, Britain
☆ Opinion | Let the Post-Pandemic City Grow Wild
  + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Ben Wilson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Every city has acres of in-between land that, if managed well, could become oases of greenery harboring insect, bird and other animal life. The rubble-strewn cities of the Second World War, to the astonishment of their inhabitants, very quickly brimmed with plant and animal life. In central Münster, Germany, piles of rubble were veiled with spontaneously growing pussy willow, mountain maple, birches, yellow mulleins and wild strawberry. Neglected sites were profuse in biodiversity, often containing many more species of plants and insects than nearby parks or even the countryside. Like the Great Trinity Forest, first it was abandoned and then hundreds of species took over, many of them endangered.
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