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Excited to go back to a garden I designed 6 months ago and see this triangular steel planter filling out and looking reaaaal happy 🌱🌴 📐🌱🌴 (at Venice, California)

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Finishing up the last beaded and braided rope planters to complete an installation on the outdoor patio for @sodaandswine in Liberty Station.. #newagehippies #macrame #planters #ferns (at Soda & Swine)

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I was commissioned by the Design Lab at UCSD to create this musical installation to be exhibited at the Design Forward Summit that was held on June 16 + 17 at the Port Pavilion at the Broadway Pier on San Diego's waterfront. This installation, titled Swan River Peppermint, is comprised of ceramic planters functioning as bell tones, wood, and stands fabricated from steel tubing. The wood used in this installation came from an Agonis tree that was planted on Coronado Island 50 years ago by a husband and wife couple who were living there and had a piece of property. This couple were lifelong partners who were deeply in love. Some years after the husband passed away, this tree that held so many memories of their years of love and marriage, blew down in a windstorm. Beverly, the mans wife, in honoring the history of their love and relationship, had this tree cut up into sections and had been saving this memory-laden wood for someone to come and make an artwork with. A friend of mine, @scoresd, called me one day and told me that he knew a woman who had this really special wood that she wanted to donate to an artist to use for a project, and that I should go meet her and take a look at it. After meeting her and spending a few hours walking around her magical house and garden, I told her I planned to make a musical sculpture out of this wood, and left that day with this special Agonis tree wood, and a warm glow in my heart. 3 years passed since meeting Beverly, and when asked to make a musical installation/environment for the Design Summit being held across the water from Beverly's home on Coronado Island, I knew that it was finally time to build the musical installation from this wood I had been safe keeping for so long. Words cannot describe the depth of feeling and satisfaction I had to call Beverly 3 years later and invite her to come play and experience this musical sculpture, and to hear her say that this wood had been used beyond her wildest imagination. Thank you Beverly, Dmitri, and the universe for allowing me to envision a wholly new cycle for this magical wood. #designforwardsd #keenanhartsten #musicalsculpture (at Broadway Pier)

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An arrangement of custom planters I fabricated from scrap materials that will be displayed for the Design Forward Summit happening tomorrow at the Port Pavilion at Broadway Pier. The summit brings together designers, civic leaders, and industry innovators to explore the possibilities for San Diego design thinking and doing. More info to be found at www.designforwardsd.com! #designforwardsd @designlabucsd (at Broadway Pier)

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A gang-load of clamps on this little pony. #wip #installation #cedar

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I'm starting an installation at a new restaurant and shown here is a model of the installation I'm doing sitting in front of the actual walls it will be installed on. The walls will be covered in cedar lumber that has been glued together and then I will be carving into it with mini chainsaws and power carving tools.. The final result will resemble rock cliffs. Super stoked ⛏⛏⛏

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📐📐📐Today's project.. Finishing up some steel planterboxes with built-in benches for a courtyard garden. Next step - planting with cacti ... 🌵 🌴 🌱 (at Venice Beach)

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Some redwood planters I've been working on the last couple of days.. 🌲🌵🌱🌿🍃🌲🌴

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A few weeks back I had the opportunity to create a planter box installation for the front of the brand new Teros Gallery and headquarters for @terosmagazine. The installation was made with wood that I have been reclaiming from houses being torn down around San Diego. It was a total pleasure working on such a fun project and for such a great person and cause. Congrats Ally on your new venture!! Come by the space at 3888 Swift Ave on Saturday, Oct 17th from 4-9pm to celebrate the grand opening of this new great space and the work of Esteban Aldrete!! #terosgallery #terosmagazine #reclaimedwood #design #cactus (at City Heights, San Diego)

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Making some sweet little tabletop planters for a restaurant today 🌱🌱🌱 #airplants

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I am excited to be doing an installation tomorrow for Make Music Day San Diego happening in Balboa Park. There is over 50 different musical events going on from 10am until 5pm all throughout the park. I will be setting up an installation at 2pm in front of the fig tree by the Natural History Museum that will incorporate large handmade marimbas and metallophones made from found and salvaged wood and metal. These instruments will be available for all to play freely, and is sure to be a good time.. Come by and say hi! @makemusicsd #percussion #marimba (at Balboa Park)

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I'm excited to be designing a new garden for a classic mid century California Ranch style home atop Mt. Helix amongst massive boulders. I have set up a pseudo-nursery in the front yard as a staging area for the obscure cactus and succulent specimens that will populate the garden. Here's a photo of some of the plants that are going to get used ✨🌿 #mthelixmodern #cactus #succulent #garden

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Excited to be out at Desert Daze working with some friends on an installation for the festival! @celestialterrestrial and @aaronglasson built a beautiful Inter-dimensional Teleporter and I brought a bunch of cactus and succulents and we're building a garden all around with help from @steph_tine. @desertdaze_official #lasdimensiones (at Sunset Ranch)

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Some long tendrils of braided rope I've been making over the last couple weeks for an outdoor installation #roperope #rope

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I made a bunch of these lava rock tillandsia planters with help from @mildlyoriginal for a new restaurant that just opened. @cataniasd #airplants #tillandsias

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Hey San Diego friends.. I am excited to be exhibiting a new musical structure @mcasandiego tomorrow night for Thursday Night Thing from 7-10pm at 1100 Kettner St. I will be sharing the outdoor concourse on the backside of the museum with Jimmy LaValle of the band The Album Leaf. This event marks the opening of Gravity and Trajectory with incredible work by the artist El Anatsui. Come say hi and let's make some sounds! (at MCASD)

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I gave the Golden Hill Influx a little love yesterday by planting a pair of Euphorbia Ingens by the doorway. #euphorbiaingens #plants #cactus