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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?


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  1. 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.

  2. 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.