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.