Canopy

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. For the 2010 Dumbo Arts Festival, I created a functional sleeping bag and pillow sewn out of cloth leaves cut from botanical-print fabrics. These leaves vary in material, color, graphic style, and texture. From a distance, the sleeping bag appears to be a messy, beautiful pile of leaves.

During the festival, I invited people to nap in the sleeping bag in the Brooklyn Bridge Park. In this way, participants activated the sculpture. They had the opportunity to rest, camouflaged, in the midst of the festival's activity.

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