Scrap: n. Discarded waste material, often metal suitable for
reprocessing.
Eden: n. A delightful place, a garden, a
paradise.
Scrap Eden: n.
1. A delightful garden made of re-claimed
discarded waste material, often metal suitable for
reprocessing.
2. Black Rock City’s First Participant-Based
Community Garden, created by the community for the community
3.
A project of the Black Rock Arts Foundation
This year the Black Rock Arts Foundation is creating a
collaborative garden installation populated by garden-inspired
sculptural elements created from re-claimed, re-purposed and
re-cycled materials, and all citizens of BRC are invited to
participate! Yes! You are an artist!
The idea formed this year in San Francisco when the Foundation
began looking at what it could do, using interactive art as the
medium, to promote a culture of re-use and re-cycling. And while
this installation will take place at Burning Man 2006 we hope it
will serve as a pilot project for sprouting gardens first in BRC,
then SF, and eventually, nationwide. Our hope is that this
prototype garden at Burning Man 2006 will not only demonstrate to
the citizens of BRC the kinds of projects we support in the
default world, and prove a beautiful interactive collaborative art
installation at this years event!
Help make it happen!
This year, the Black Rock Arts Foundation is inviting Burning Man
citizens to create sculptures of garden-inspired flora and fauna
from re-claimed, re-cycled and re-purposed INORGANIC materials for
a collective installation on the open playa. We’ll provide a
centrally located garden shed (built from re-claimed materials) as
a focal point around which participants will be able to “plant”,
or install, individual (or communal) creations for collective
exhibition.
What you can do:
1) Contact
scrapedenbrc @blackrockarts.org
for starters. Let us know you want to participate! Tell us what
you are planning to create for collective installation. We’ll get
back in touch with you and send along some more of the pertinent
details. A short questionnaire will help us capture a few things
we need to know, such as: the approximate height and footprint of
the piece, estimated arrival date, and a rough idea of the
installation plan, Ex: rebar stakes!
2) Create an original
flora or fauna garden-inspired sculpture, from sunflower to bean
sprout, earthworm to caterpillar, garden gnome to toad, out of
re-cycled, re-claimed, or re-purposed materials. These materials
must be INORGANIC and their construction must be able to withstand
desert conditions (extreme, heat, cold, and wind up to 50 mph)
without becoming matter out of place.
3) Send us pictures of
your work-in-progress, however great or small, and we’ll post ‘em
on the web for the whole world to see!!
4) Questions about
the above process can be sent to the same address:
scrapedenbrc @blackrockarts.org
The garden shed will be open from 10 am – 6 pm daily and will have
personnel and/or gnomes on hand to help with placement and
installation of all Scrap Eden pieces.
Everyone who participates will receive an original design Scrap
Eden t-shirt by Dicky of Burning Man 2005 Dicky Box Fame!
The Dreamer came to San Francisco in the Spring and Summer of
2007. In the bottom photo, Bay to Breakers, a San Francisco foot
race, rushes by ‘The Dreamer’ in Golden Gate
Park.
