How Trump's Twitter account is cultivating a lavender field
Martin Roth has done a lot of interesting things for his art projects. He once put lab mice in a terrarium on a running wheel that was hooked up to a music box that played Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
Another time, he filled suitcases with rocks and rubble from the Syrian and Turkish borders, and then used that debris as litter for rescued parakeets in New York.
He has also flooded galleries, released crickets into industrial buildings, transformed his studio into a bird retreat and inserted fruit trees into wooden structures.
As you may have gathered, Roth often works with plants and animals.
Originally from Austria, and now based in New York, Roth is cultivating a lavender field in an underground gallery space in midtown Manhattan.
The field is actually powered by the Twitter activity of Donald Trump and those in Trump's close circles.
Tom Power talks to Roth to find out more about how this is done.
Roth's exhibition is on display at the Austrian Cultural Forum until it closes tomorrow, June 21. See more examples of Roth's work here.
— Produced by Cora Nijhawan
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