DC could learn a thing from Tijuana
I’m not sure where I came across this artist’s work, offiically, but the DC Department of Transportation (as well as other surrounding communities) could learn a thing or two about the project started in 2005 by UCSD art student, Shannon Spanhake… planting pothole gardens.
Why fill the negative space with soul sucking and uninteresting asphalt or concrete, when you can beautify the streets and provide miniature dog parks in the middle of the avenue?! It’s not a surreal as a Dali painting (I still dig the “stache”), or abstract as a Seurat scene, but it’s still a neat idea. I’ve seen impromptu road gardens when landscaping material falls off the back of a truck on the beltway, but it never lands with a nice arrangement of flowers and other foliage to accompany it.
“Why fill the negative space with soul sucking and uninteresting asphalt or concrete, when you can beautify the streets and provide miniature dog parks in the middle of the avenue?!”
Because people can’t avoid those potholes 100% of the time and the pretty little garden will be destroyed?
Um, did nobody detect the humor here… wow.
David, I think there have been a lot of misundertandings this week in the world of MB.
Judging by the overall highly-earnest tenor of this blog, the last thing I’d expect to see is any sarcasm in a post. Kudos.
Coming to SF sometime soon I hope!