Document:Q11839
From Rhizome Artbase
The American Suburban lawn is the archetype of success and stability- acres of green unbroken by weed or wear, a moat of calm around a personal castle. Yet our lawns are anything but green- consuming vast quantities of water, gallons of gas to power lawnmowers, and bags of fertilizer synthesized from fossil fuels, eventually washing into streams, clogging them with algae.
N:P:K 18:6:12 gently comments on this absurd affectation- substituting a black plastic film, made from fossil fuels, for green grass. Animated by sunlight as if it were part of the natural landscape, the c))motion plastic film sways gently in the air. Sharp edged instead of soft- a biting warning.