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December 11, 2009

Sean Martindale's FREE

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Torontoist has a terrific article on Sean Martindale's latest project, Free. Sean tells us:

"The Art Gallery of Ontario kindly let me use their parking lot for this project. It’s a fenced-off enclosure that bisects Butterfield Park and Grange Park here in downtown Toronto. The installation became a bit of a marathon as I tied it together over a solid twenty-four hour period, overnight and through some light rain. In the end, I used more than 21,663 feet of salvaged string - two high-tension lengths for each of the 231 points/nodes crossing the 44-foot distance between the fences, plus the letter outlines. So far, the squirrels haven’t chewed on it for their nests…'

Read more here.

Posted by marc at 7:45 AM in Guerilla Gardening |

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