Closing Bell: Plastic Bag Skyline
A prolific flickr contributor who goes by the handle bitchcakesny captured this scene on the Pulaski Bridge between Greenpoint and Long Island City: a skyline made of plastic bags, the kind that normally snag in chain link fence in a less attractive pattern. Is it art or recycling?
A prolific flickr contributor who goes by the handle bitchcakesny captured this scene on the Pulaski Bridge between Greenpoint and Long Island City: a skyline made of plastic bags, the kind that normally snag in chain link fence in a less attractive pattern. Is it art or recycling?
Hm, then I am retracting my previous statements. It would be cool if this artist was re-semiotizing existing trash into something interesting, but just putting new plastic bags into the consumption system = not so good.
Also, it’s gimmicky, like the guy who draws outlines around cast street-shadows. Except this is more eco-hostile.
I saw the artist installing this on Sunday — they were new bags from a roll, so not sure if “recycling” applies here. Unless she does take them down and reuse them.
i happen to pass this – easy to bike down franklin’s bike bath in greenpoint over the pulaski bridge to LIC (great riverside playground and park now). i tend to fall on the side of graffiti is vandalism, so i am not in general a fan of random art. however, this is pretty cool, and certainly not ruining the fence. i have read about this artist. it may be that the artist even takes it down.
it’s unexpected and clever. i say yes.
biodegradable plastic manufactured from corn cobs.
Does the PS Co-op use plastic or paper bags?
Art! Or maybe art intervention.
Kind of like put Juan Muñoz and Andy Goldsworthy in a blender…
The skyline is so, so beautiful from that spot.
wasn’t me dittoburg. Didn’t post on that one- you probably confused me with East New York.
It’s art AND recycling!
I think the waterfall “art” is vandalism and the fountain foam bath was cool.