Document:Q9319
From Rhizome Artbase
American lawns are the archetypical marker of suburbia and success- yet that very same lawn is a voracious consumer of water, oil, time and fertilizer. A distortion of nature.
This piece gently questions our infatuation with perfect expanses of grass, by substituting a black, plastic row of aggressive barbs which sway and move in the sun, made from the oil that supports a "green" lawn.