Seeds of Abundance: Limits, Loss & Regeneration created using natural and salvaged materials gathered on-site and from Authentique Artfarm.
Located on the north side of Bend, Oregon, Authentique Artfarm is a market garden and art studio focused on sustainably growing the highest quality vegetables, creating art, and supporting the community.
Owners Kyle and Michèle started Authentique Artfarm in 2023 with the goal of creating a small farm that would contribute to, and connect them to, their community, and which would serve as a source of inspiration for themselves and for others.
Throughout the season, the farm produces vegetables, seedlings, and flowers for sale and donation, is a working art studio, and hosts art workshops.
Her current art exhibition, Seeds of Abundance: Limits, Loss & Regeneration at Scalehouse Gallery in Bend is a multi-room installation that explores abundance not through accumulation but through attention to what already surrounds us. Using natural and salvaged materials gathered on-site and from Authentique Artfarm—branches, seeds, flowers, stones, and found elements—Michele Guieu creates a series of immersive environments that invite slowing down, reflection, and participation.
In a time marked by ecological overshoot, biodiversity loss, and increasing systemic complexity, the exhibition draws inspiration from the thinking of Nate Hagens and The Great Simplification, emphasizing response over solution. Visitors are invited to engage through small gestures—touching, listening, contributing, and observing—highlighting the power of limits, care, and collective presence.
Seeds of Abundance extends a body of work that began with large-scale outdoor installations in the Mojave Desert and continues here as a quieter, more intimate meditation on loss, regeneration, and the possibility of meaning rooted in simplicity.
Visitors are invited to bring a small natural element—seed, seedpod, dried flower, or stone—and add it to A Sense of Place, a growing communal structure in the main gallery, accompanied by a handwritten note. These small gestures become acts of presence, care, and connection within the exhibition.
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