the silver grid — week 1
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Week one
The Silver gridLotte Geeven & Semâ Bekirovic
week one
We started collecting wild flora data from all the New York City neighbor-hoods in order to make bouquets based on these area's. Armed with knifeand plastic bags we walk the alleys & sidewalks, shake ghetto trees and strollthe rivers in search for flora shaped by its neighborhood specific environ-ments. We find ivy marked with silver graffiti growing along the desolateHunters Point Piers, an algae-covered stone from the strong current of thecold East River, separating Manhattan from Brooklyn and an aerodyna -mically shaped treetop cut from a maple tree with twirling helicopter seedsgrowing next to the windy expressway in the Bronx.
This document appears on the occasion of the project: The silver grid A collective project by Lotte Geeven & Semâ Bekirovicnew york city, september — november 2011
Text & images: the artists
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