Georgic for a Forgotten Planet (2009)

I began reading Virgils Georgics a 1st Century epic agricultural poem and knew immediately that I needed to create a visual equivalent about my own relationship to the place where I live New York City Culled from material I collected at Coney Island the Lower East Side Socrates Sculpture Garden in Queens a Brooklyn community garden and a place on Staten Island that is so dark you can see the three moons of Jupiter An homage to a place many people affectionately and mysteriously call the Big Apple Lynne Sachs