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Temporary Landscape
Temporary Landscape
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
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Temporary Landscape
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2005
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
In 2005, I noticed on my walk to work what seemed to be a vacant lot but with sculptures in it. The lot sat on a corner in the Columbia Waterfront district of Brooklyn, and the large back wall created a backdrop for the sculptures. I said to my husband that there should be a landscape installation there. Beginning with drawings and a model, I imagined how I might use both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, seeing the site almost like a large-scale diorama. The ground plane of Temporary Landscape: A Pasture for an Urban Space was an undulating topography of grass. The existing chain-link fence was removed temporarily and replaced with a split-rail fence; the wooden fence instantly transformed the lot, and kids played on it as though it was a playground feature. Through a friend, I reached out to Bruce Weber’s office, and he put me in touch with a very talented director who worked with him, named Shane Sigler. Shane was on location often with Bruce, but in his spare time put together a 45-minute film of some of the stunning landscapes he had visited through his work: mountains in British Columbia, “Oreo cows” in rural New Jersey, waves in the moonlight in Montauk, and goats in the Dominican Republic. The film was all shot on an old 16mm camera, which made it look rough, but real. I rented an obscenely huge 10,000 lumen projector from New City Video and Staging to project the film onto the 30-foot wall at the back of the lot. The craziest part (other than hauling it up the stairs) was asking the woman across the street to both house the projector in her apartment and turn it on and off for two hours each night. The film ran in the evenings, and 30-foot cows moved slowly in color across the large back wall. KeySpan Energy was doing electrical work in the area at the time, and they actually dragged over a few huge wooden telephone poles to function as makeshift benches for a sidewalk theater. The film ran for six weeks beginning in July and drew hundreds of families out on hot summer evenings to immerse themselves in a completely different place in the world while still standing on their own corner. It was truly a community project, built by a community of people for others.
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