06/01/2026
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hi to the 21c St. Louis team this weekend at The Young Friends Council of x lumunious one-night celebration, Patterns in Nature: LightForm! 🧡
We were excited to bring a taste of ’s “The Way Out West” staircase art installation and ’s “Matrix Botanica - Biosphere above Nations” video performance piece.
Melanie Bonajo created this performance as an ode to nature: a concert for trees and animals. The artist plays the protagonist Nature, using her own voice to personify land, air, water, and plants. This performance took place in the Green Cathedral, an artistic planting of trees shaped like the Cathedral Notre-Dame in Reims, France, created in 1987 by Dutch artist Marinus Boezem. Bonajo entices audiences to change their relationship with Mother Nature and embrace a more “eco-centric perspective in a more connected universe.”