Closing Bell: Inside Brooklyn Navy Yard
The always impressive Nathan Kensinger put a new round of photographs up today, this set focusing on abandoned spaces in the Navy Yard. He also talks about an art project inside the Navy Yard called House of Cards, a “shanty timeshare” built from found materials, which participants could buy a share in for $199.99 per…
The always impressive Nathan Kensinger put a new round of photographs up today, this set focusing on abandoned spaces in the Navy Yard. He also talks about an art project inside the Navy Yard called House of Cards, a “shanty timeshare” built from found materials, which participants could buy a share in for $199.99 per week. (There was no running water, and a bucket was used for a toilet.) Kensinger writes, “Appropriately enough, the House of Cards collapsed before its one year run was complete. No trace of the structure remains.”
Life in the Navy Yard [Nathan Kensinger]
I think we should stop using ships. We should focus our energy on inventing the teleport.
Ah, I see. Didn’t know that picture was specifically what you were talking about! (Or even that that is what is called a dry dock… ha)
Yes, I did look at it. It’s true. Just saying this is a working dry dock. In fact, it’s the oldest still-in-use dry dock in the United States.
Nomi, did you look at his site? He writes: “However, for such a large and active industrial zone, the Navy Yard still contains an incredible amount of abandonment.”
Very cool.
That’s the dry dock that my studio overlooks. It’s not abandoned at all.