Sugarcane Maze

In October of 2009, KKProjects | Life is Art Foundation presented an agricultural land art piece by Norwegian artist Anne Katrina Senstad. The one-acre living sculpture grew in the cane fields outside of New Orleans under the guidance of Senstad and the care of farmer Ronald Waguespack of Triple K & M Farms, in Theriot, Louisiana. Sugarcane Maze was planted in March of 2009 and opened to the public seven months later.

The opening celebration featured a two day wandering through the fields.

School children were invited to tour the labyrinth and learn about Louisiana sugarcane history, organic farming and ethanol production. At the end of the exhibition in November, the cane was harvested into raw sugar and the bagasse recycled organic mulching material for urban farms. A tiny grove of the cane is growing at the Life is Art urban farm.

This project marks the foundation's first large-scale land art piece, and exists as expression of our goal to explore the expansion of art into the realm of agriculture. Sugarcane Maze is an experiment in the living practice of our philosophy that life itself, and therefore agriculture, is fertile medium for making art and is a satellite project of our urban farm / artspace in St Roch.

Advisors we would like to thank include Triple K & M Farms of Thibodaux, Louisiana, the Louisiana State University Agriculture Department, the City Center of Tulane University, New Orleans Food + Farm Network and New York Ecologist Tim White.