In droughts in Southern California, concerned homeowners paint their dead grass green.
For Michael Buitron and Manya Fox, a similar strategy became a critique. Instead of disguising a problem, they highlighted it. Buitron added plastic leaves to bare branches in his project, Four Los Angeles Parks. Fox flung a deep green tarp over a dead spot.
Then there’s SuttonBeresCuller, replacing nature with a madcap, Bladerunner zeal. Below, images from their portable park, fake island in the real Lake Washington and their green cave of a mini-mart, the last still in progress.
John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler are represented in Seattle by Lawrimore Project.
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