Publication:
The Guardian, 27 June 2009

Headline:
Life on the edge

Selected editorial:

By Hari Kunzru

A wolf on a trailer, a raft for rhododendrons, a fallen rain forest - the Barbican's new exhibition shows how artists have responded to threats to the environment. Has Nature in art has become a puny, melancholy creature, asks Hari Kunzru

...Also good to look at is the pleasingly crafty I Am So Sorry, Goodbye, by Heather and Ivan Morison, a domed pavilion that comes on like something out of Middle Earth by way of the Whole Earth Catalog, and was clearly inspired by the dwellings that popped up around the world as part of the alternative-living movement in the 60s. The Morisons' other structures, many of them located in their own tract of Welsh woodland, are a form of "architecture without architects", and bear little relationship to the faux-humble plywood modernism that usually results when architectural firms are asked to "think green"...