JUNE WOEST
  • My Why
  • I See Land
  • Weather Gear
  • Aerial Photos
  • Colored Glass
  • Longing to Travel
  • ___________________
  • Super Humans
    • People Sculptures
    • People Posters
  • ___________________
  • At Home in Here
    • Indoor Installation
  • RoadsignUSA
    • Roadsign #1
    • ....more Roadsigns >
      • Goodbye Bill Hello Annise #2
      • Preserving Space #3
      • Nap #4
      • Your Calm Able Spirit #5
      • Rat Race #7
      • Four Lilys #8
      • Summer Tonic #9
      • Espectacular #10
      • Yogi On Location #11
  • Pharmacy Domesticus
    • Outdoor Installation
  • ___________________
  • Community Projects
    • Wedgespace | the Project
    • Ebola at Hcc
    • Knitting Time
    • Food & Water $6.00 oz.
    • Peppermint Tonic
    • Damaged Ceramics
    • Notes on Religion
    • Earth Shattering
    • Municipal Dirt >
      • Concept | Year One >
        • 2009 Human Nature Planted
        • 2010 Preserving Space
  • Invitationals
    • L’esprit De L’escalier
    • Borrowed Hands >
      • Critical Ceramics Essay by Dana Padgett
    • Seed Rooms >
      • More About Seed Rooms
    • Copenhagen
    • Home Health Care Mini-Many
    • Aggregates
  • Gardens
    • Trellis
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
    • Lily Pads
  • ____________________
  • CV
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Bio
  • My Why
  • I See Land
  • Weather Gear
  • Aerial Photos
  • Colored Glass
  • Longing to Travel
  • ___________________
  • Super Humans
    • People Sculptures
    • People Posters
  • ___________________
  • At Home in Here
    • Indoor Installation
  • RoadsignUSA
    • Roadsign #1
    • ....more Roadsigns >
      • Goodbye Bill Hello Annise #2
      • Preserving Space #3
      • Nap #4
      • Your Calm Able Spirit #5
      • Rat Race #7
      • Four Lilys #8
      • Summer Tonic #9
      • Espectacular #10
      • Yogi On Location #11
  • Pharmacy Domesticus
    • Outdoor Installation
  • ___________________
  • Community Projects
    • Wedgespace | the Project
    • Ebola at Hcc
    • Knitting Time
    • Food & Water $6.00 oz.
    • Peppermint Tonic
    • Damaged Ceramics
    • Notes on Religion
    • Earth Shattering
    • Municipal Dirt >
      • Concept | Year One >
        • 2009 Human Nature Planted
        • 2010 Preserving Space
  • Invitationals
    • L’esprit De L’escalier
    • Borrowed Hands >
      • Critical Ceramics Essay by Dana Padgett
    • Seed Rooms >
      • More About Seed Rooms
    • Copenhagen
    • Home Health Care Mini-Many
    • Aggregates
  • Gardens
    • Trellis
    • Tree Therapy
    • Dormant
    • Lily Pads
  • ____________________
  • CV
  • Teaching Philosophy
  • Bio
JUNE WOEST

Pharmacy Domesticus, 2015 - 2nd Installation

Mast Arboretum, Stephen F. Austin University
Sculpture for All
​by June Woest

January 2014 - February 2015
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Press

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Daily Sentinel of Nacogdoches, Sept 18, 2014

Pharmacy Domesticus, 2009 - 1st Installation

Russ Pitman Park
by 
June Woest & Urban Artists

Materials: 3,000 plastic prescription bottles,50 feet of park land,  12 gage aluminum, and green ribbed plastic pieces tip each stem.

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       Planted in a 4-Acre Nature Preserve


Pharmacy Domesticus was temporarily "planted" in a nature preserve, a 4-acre plot of land in a 1905 suburb of Houston, TX, retained from commercial development by concerned citizens and neighbors in the Bellaire Community, in 1979. The work of art asks questions about balancing our personal health care with the care of the environment.

For thousands of years plants have served to inform systems of health care. Modern pharmacology is a relatively new innovation by comparison. The pharmacy industry uses scientific theory of plant biology to derive its products. These are the same synthetic plant compounds I sometimes use for my own ailments. This artwork references the scientific and commercial success of pharmaceutical science while being an homage to the life cycle of plants.
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Social & Community Practice 

Students for the Betterment of the Community (SFBC) volunteered to explore the connection between modern medicine and the landscape, by helping with the planting of the Bamboo stems in Pharmacy Domesticus.
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Detail 

Site Specific sculpture installed by June Woest and Urban Artists, 2009

Overheard 

by Eric Duran, Park Naturalist
We didn't come up with these drugs by our sheer brilliance. We would have never known to isolate these substances as curatives if we hadn't gotten them from plants.
by June Woest, Urban Artist
I am practicing a crude form of horticulture.

Press

Human Nature Political, by Dean Liscum, Free Press Houston, Aug 31, 2009 (No longer available on the internet)

A Prescription for Tolerance-What I Learned

June changed her thinking about the war on drugs just a little during this installation.  Her long time friend called her from jail during the exhibition, in tears. Her friend became a participant in HISD's push for Zero Tolerance and drug-sniffiing dogs found two Xanax pills in her car on school property. That makes it a felony conviction.

Beyond the obvious good of the dogs doing what they were told, June didn't think much positive happened for her friend's cause, until Lisa Gray, arts writer for the Houston Chronicle, spoke up and possibly changed a tide of public opinion with her article, Teachers Drug Charge isn't that Simple. June knew Mindy didn't do drugs. Mindy is a champion tennis player, HISD teacher of the year for 3 years, and she won't even take her pills for high cholesterol.  For 30+ years June has known her. It is just more complicated than a politcally proscribed, Zero Tolerance.

Lisa Gray wrote an update on Mindy's return to the classroom and her highly unconventional return to school since her case was dropped without a Grand Jury date ever being set. Gray reports those kindergarten art students got a great lesson in civics in her essay, Ms. Herrick Shares Lessons From Jail in the Houston Chronicle. 

Contributions in Kind

SFBC (Students for the Betterment of the Community), HISD, Lamar & Bellaire High School students, Houston, TX

Medical Bridges  Building the Medical Gap Worldwide), Houston, TX

Nature Discovery Center, Bellaire, TX

The Terrace, Retirement Living, Houston, TX

Contemporary Theology Class, St. Lukes Methodist Church, Houston, TX

Xavier Pharmacy, 4040 Broadway, Houston, TX 77087, (713) 645-3344

Texas Native Wildscapes, Houston, TX
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