tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556038355083275730.post5456177070950351398..comments2023-03-28T00:29:42.725-07:00Comments on Elusive Landscape: Elusive Landscape: Final Installation at Vizcaya Museum and GardensDinorahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05871028939572651092noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556038355083275730.post-12914118687991022222010-10-09T06:13:11.553-07:002010-10-09T06:13:11.553-07:00In the last score of years children of the digital...In the last score of years children of the digital age have become increasingly disenfranchised from the natural environment, sometimes with perilous implications, not only for their physical fitness, but also for their sustained mental and spiritual well-being. <br /> <br />When the garden and woods beckoned — kids used to scampered about, bustling, building, burrowing; playing imaginative and socially interactive games like hide-and-seek, tag and capture the flag.<br /> <br />Yet the glow of a screen now arrests more attention than fireflies.<br /> <br />According to a somewhat introspective documentary (produced and directed by self-admitted TV junkie and long-time child actor Adrian Grenier) (teenagepaparazzo.com) about youthful paparrizi, on average, children in the USA spend just over 6 hours looking into electronic screens each day. The total of 2,000 hours a year compares with 900 hours in class and 1,270 hours with their parents. <br /><br />What to do? Seems "that PlayStation, X-genie" is out of the bottle and it ain't gonna fit back in. <br /> <br />What if I was to describe a scene a few nights ago in Miami when I watched kids stash their gaming devices (voluntarily) as they entered a garden and museum's maze-like structure?<br /><br />Would you believe it? Read this entire review of Elusive Landscapes @ Vizcaya in the Children and Nature Network post: <br /><br />Artist Multi-tasks Mother NatureUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10908811663601837512noreply@blogger.com