street
2012-2017
Street
Visual art in public spaces.
2017
Coastal Oak-Hickory Forest with the American Chestnut
@ 1069 Bedford Ave - Brooklyn, NY
spray paint + recycled latex paint on stucco and roll down gates
This project visually depicts to-scale the native ecology specific to the block of Lexington and Bedford Ave in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn pre-colonization (roughly 400 years ago). Featured as the largest trees in the mural is the American Chestnut, a keynote species whose population was unfortunately decimated at the turn of the 20th century due what is now called “Chestnut blight”. This fungal disease is recorded as having a devastating ecological, social, and economic impact on communities in North America. “In the first half of the 20th century it killed an estimated four billion trees.” This mural pays homage to the American Chestnut whose wisdom and spirit hovered as redwoods due on the west coast of the U.S., as well as paying respect to the caretakers of the land that is now NYC, the Lenape people. Community partner for this project is Eric Sanderson, Senior Conservation Scientist of the Wildlife Conservation Society and founder of the Weilikia Project. Without his research contribution, this work would not have been possible. Special thanks also to Bed-Stuy Acupuncture & Massage friends Kate Henderson and Darrin Defeo for helping make this project possible.
2012
Torch of Freedom
@ Atlanta, GA - Living walls 2012
spray paint + latex paint
