Pop Culture Review

When tasked with finding a work of pop culture to analyze for this weeks blog post, I wanted to do something that I was interested in, but also that was in the realm of this assignment. I think it is important to think about art and farming in our time, not only in the past. That is why I chose to analyze Disney World's Landscaping and Hydroponic Garden. These works of art can be found in Florida at Disney's Epcot Center. They use plants from all continents (excluding Antarctica) as well as from over 50 countries. The gardens at Epcot cover a 47 square mile radius and include theme parks, hotels, golf coursels, hydroponics, as well as campgrounds. 

These are just a few selections from a wide variety that show what Disney is doing with flowers, but also with gardening and farming. Instead of being a traditional farm with rows and tractors, they have a new take on farming vegetables. By growing things hydroponically, they are reducing their need for land, as well as making things easier to harvest by having the fruit dangle down below the vines. This way they can put the pumpkin shapers on them to make it into the distinct Mickey Mouse head shape. They also take so much care in everything they plant, as evidenced by the third photo, where they just planted lettuce in the hydroponic greenhouse, but they took so much care in planting it into the Mickey shape. 

I like taking the concepts that we have been learning about how to analyze works of art, and appreciating the works of art in farming that we have in our lifetime. Farming is still a very prevalent profession, but it make take on different forms than we are expecting from the pictures of farms that we have in our minds from the past.