how to draw a fence
a hellish project drawing every individual stick and leaf in this 107 acre park
How to Draw a Fence is a project about boundaries, and how these boundaries affect our relationship with what is on either side . using Mariners Marsh Park as a starting point, the project reveals that boundaries are not always "fences," even though the park is "locked" behind one. There are residential neighborhoods to the east, a large container terminal to the west, the Kill van Kull coast to the north, and more woodleands and houses in the south.
The park is an example of a recurring condition on the island, we're left on the street, surrounded on both sides by fences with no idea what lays beyond. These boundaries enclose nature (such as the fence at the park), or enclose us (the ring of storage facilities growing along the coast), leading to the question if this is how we want toeexperience our city. These "simple fences" are fraught wit hthe age-opld recurring conflict of man vs. nature, just on different sacles. How can we redraw these boundaries to start including us?