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Art: Architecture/Design
Public Art Fund presents Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: A Clearing in the Streets
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- Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith: A Clearing in the Streets, Courtesy Public Art Fund
The always awesome public-art sponsors at Public Art Fund debut a new downtown work by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith. Their Clearing is an urban meadow, measuring 15 feet in diameter. Enclosed by plywood planks — each set eight inches apart, so as to give pedestrians a glimpse inside — the piece reclaims a pastoral past of New York City with its living meadowland, which will grow and (hopefully) flourish from seeds to final mini-landscape over the next four months. Both artists have a history of landscape design, and a marked interest in (re)introducing nature in decidedly concrete landscapes.
Read an interview with the artists on Flavorwire.
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May 27, 2009 – Oct 5, 2009
Daily
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Collect Pond Park
Leonard & Centre St
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Isn't that the purpose of Central Park? Except that it is actually accessible? Maybe they can plant a gold-plated Michael Jackson tombstone in the center to give the idea some oomph... a bit anemic at this stage - as "art,' that is.
Check out an interview with the artists at http://flavorwire.com/23372/public-art-fund-a-clearing-in-the-streets-interview
I think Central Park was more about setting up a park designed similarly to British designs for the city, but not specifically reclaiming parts that previously had little to no greenery in them. It's along the same lines, but this seems more about adding in nature to existing landscape, instead of creating a big rectangle that's clearly separate.
it is lovely wish we had more of those curiosity