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HUMAN POTS
20 trees, wood pots, wood signs, 2 ghillie suits, succulents, bonsai trees, draught tolerant plants, motorcycle helmets, beer hats, cowboy hard hats, armband, velcro, elastic, pots, dirt, potting stands, casters, stain, landscaping fabric, mirror, metal plant tags with plant titles and descriptions.
2011

Description
Human Pots were a part of a one night event featuring wearable foliage accessories tailored for distinct environments that Bank created for The San Diego Museum of Art for their Summer Salon Series that posed the question "What does a city need?".

On Thursday, July 14, 2011 Bank responded with a copse of moveable foliage dubbed "The Portable Forest." Visitors to the rotunda between 6:00-9:00p.m. wandered amongst evergreen trees on wheels and donned wearable foliage accessories tailored for distinct environments. Assistants in ghillie suits helped participants dress in wearable foliage accessories.

4,000 participants walked through, being dressed by ghillies, dressing themselves, looking in the mirror, posing for and taking photos on their phones of themselves, their friends, and families wearing the foliage, drinking, and wandering through the evergreen trees on wheels encircling the rotunda.

07/2011 The Portable Forest with Human Pots by Lara Bank for The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. Ghillie suit wearers: Amy Blount Lay and Marcos Siref. Photos by Chris Colthart.

Participant posing and wearing Crystal Gayle, Cowboy Bananas (String of Bananas) and participant taking a photo on her phone.
Photo by Chris Colthart.

Participant wearing Beer Garden Rasta (String of Bananas).
Photo by Chris Colthart.

Participant drinking beer and wearing Beer Garden, the Mother-in-Law (Spiky Mother-in-Law's Tongue).

Participant wearing Beer Garden, Rasta (String of Bananas).

Participants wearing Crystal Gayle Cowboy Bananas (String of Bananas), Beer Garden, the Mother-in-Law (Spiky Mother-in-Law's Tongue), and Cowboy Spider (Burn Jelly Plant).

Lara Bank

Participant wearing Beer Garden, Rasta (String of Bananas), Unicorn for Horn (Compressa Common Juniper), Yard armband (Irish Moss), and Desert armband (Dichondra Silver Falls).

Participants wearing Beer Garden, Rasta (String of Bananas), Crystal Gayle Cowboy Bananas (String of Bananas), and Desert armband (Pachyveria Powder Puff Exotica).