April 1999
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Space Program
New York, NY
10’ x 8’2” x 8’2”
An installation of nylon fabric walls double sewn in rows of pockets to support the growth of wheatgrass seeds. Watered by a circulating drip irrigation system through copper pipes from a stainless steel reservoir located under a raised wooded platform. In the center of the platform sits a grass-sprouting chair over a second steel reservoir that circulates water. The chair is set facing in the direction of the room windows that over look the Hudson River. When sitting in the chair, the viewer would see the landscape of western Manhattan bordering the River with New Jersey through the repetitive rows of landscapes sprouting in the fabric walls. The piece is lit by 12 volt halogen lights that dangle from above.