Can’t say I really spend much time at Momenta Art. I often
look in and am a little unmotivated to read the large amount of text that seems
to go with every show. Well, I had some time to kill before meeting up with friends
and found myself quite engaged with Henry G. Sanchez’s The English Kills
Project. It is art, that is, kind of art, but really more of a creative city
planning proposal or at least the parts that I enjoyed. For instance, I learned
from the show that contamination from sewage “outflows” is the main source of
pollution of Newtown Creek, a superfund site that runs a couple blocks from my
apartment. The pollution could be greatly helped by filtering the runoff
through rows of floating tires filled with marsh grass. Who knew? This is
presented in generally interesting and instructive form through text, digital
mock-ups of the tires, video screens peeking out of tires and a fish in a tank
(which I didn’t get). I would certainly contribute to a kickstarter to run a
line of grass-filled tires to help clean up Newtown Creek.
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