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From a portfolio of twelve

Label Text:
The collaged elements in these aerial views of Manhattan represent Sonfist’s unrealized “interventions," a term used for artworks designed to interact with existing structures or space. In 1965, land artist Sonfist proposed that New York City allow him to return unused land in Manhattan to pre-colonial landscapes. He was granted only one plot, twenty-five by forty feet, on the corner of LaGuardia Place and West Houston Street, where in 1978, he planted foliage and trees indigenous to the area before the arrival of the Dutch settlers in the seventeenth century. This “Time Landscape” is now a designated city park and historic landmark.

GM, 2019

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