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"An Unblighted Area is Not" is partially taken from the words of a city leader. When they bulldozed the garden, they said it was because our city deserved an unblighted area. However, as a business owner directly across the street from this space, and who regularly picks up all sorts of garbage here (see the many mini liquor bottles that were used in this exhibit), I can promise you that it is now more "blighted." I trespassed on this lot to clean up plastic bags and turn them into these mini bags. I can make thousands of mini plastic bags from what I regularly clean up from this supposed now "unblighted area."

The plastic grass was leftover scrap from a local business owner's remodeling project.

Each framed piece comes with an accompanying Unblighted Bouquet

Measurements: 8 x 10" frame (approximately)

Collection: An Unblighted Area

“An Unblighted Area” was an exhibit that told the story of building a community garden, loving a community garden, having my heart break watching that community garden be bulldozed to the ground (for reasons I’ll never understand), and now having my art studio directly across the street from that space, where an empty lot with a “no trespassing” sign stands. That sign has been there for 4 years. It’s not even the same color anymore. And no one is allowed to put a garden in that lot again.

So I built my own garden, using electrical wire from my studio, abandoned paper, old folders from people in positions of power (enough power to tear down a garden), and the empty liquor bottles that regularly litter our neighborhood.

And now that my show is over, I hope that you might take a piece of this garden. It no longer exists across the street from me, but it would make me so happy to see it live on in the homes of the community I’ve found through my art.

An Unblighted Area Is Not

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